On 23:39 03 Sep 2003, Patrick Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| Writing a script that asks for a pass-phrase to use specific features of
| the script. Would like to hid the input of the phrase from the screen
| while the user types it in. Whats the best way?
Well, the easy way is this:
stty -echo
echo "Enter Password now:"
read password
stty echo
Remark: Note that the turning off of echo happens _before_ the prompt.
If it happened afterwards then on a (very very) slow or busy machine
the user _might_ get to read the prompt and start typing before the echo
gets turned off, which would be bad.
Cheers,
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