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Does this mean that /dev/tty gets re-opened by passwd and such programs after I redirect STDOUT to /dev/tty?

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Re^3: Submitting password changes to external program
by Fletch (Bishop) on Dec 09, 2005 at 14:48 UTC

    Yes, passwd ignores its STDIN and opens /dev/tty to read the password from.

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