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From: Kyle Jones <kyle_jones@wonderworks.com>
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Subject: Re: Can't determine how to read passwords, winging it.
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Per Abrahamsen writes:
 > All of these packages should use `read-passwd', which is
 > autoloaded from `passwd.el'.
 > 
 > If `read-passwd' doesn't do the right thing, it should be fixed.

The problem I have with read-password is that the thing flipped
the screen colors around and royally screwed up my faces that
last time I tried it.  I couldn't convince Jamie to excise this
extraneous behavior from the function, so VM uses the password
reading function that I wrote for crypt.el long ago.

