Re: Password entry field.

2002-08-27 Thread Kevin Meltzer
As well as the pointer Craig gave, you can also look at the Term::ReadPassword module. Cheers, Kevin On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 02:55:41PM -0400, Ravindranath, Sujit ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something similar to: > Hi all, > I am using PERL to write a terminal(UNIX) program wherein it prompts the

Re: Password entry field.

2002-08-27 Thread Craig Moynes/Markham/IBM
perldoc -q password How do I ask the user for a password? (This question has nothing to do with the web. See a different FAQ for that.) There's an example of this in L). First, you put the terminal into "no echo" mode, then just read the password normally. You may do this with an old-style i