On 27/05/2015 09:17, Luca Cerone wrote:
Hi David, thanks, but the function has to work from an R shell, I have
no graphical server in my remote machines.
My suggestion was going to be to use readline() to read the passwords.
Ideally one would use a custom reader from stdin which did not echo, but
that is not possible without knowledge of the terminal/console in use
(which is hard to do portably), nor in general. One could do what some
password readers (e.g. that on iOS) do, and after each character is
entered backspace and overwrite by x or dot.
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 9:45 AM, David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net> wrote:
On May 27, 2015, at 12:29 AM, Luca Cerone wrote:
Hi everybody,
in one of my packages I store encrypted password.
If the user has to change the password in use she can run:
update_password(old_password, new_password)
The problem is that the commands ends up in the .Rhistory file.
Is there any way I can avoid this? Any suggestion about it?
Write a small password verification program in Rcpp or tcl and then call it to handle the
dialog. In the past Greg Snow has suggested: "The tkexamp function in the
TeachingDemos package can help with creating tcltk dialog boxes. "
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