Re: Blind input

2008-04-09 Thread Faustin LAMMLER
I think you can use the function getch() with option "noecho". Faustin Original Message Subject: Blind input From: Till Elsner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: openssl-users@openssl.org Date: mer 09 avr 2008 16:03:23 CEST Hi, I know this might not be the right mailing list for that,

Re: Blind input

2008-04-09 Thread Till Elsner
Fantastic, thats exactly what I needed. Thanks a lot. Thanks ans regards Till Elsner Am 09.04.2008 um 16:16 schrieb Ambarish Mitra: I'm trying to read a password from console in a C program and I want prevent the entered password from actually appearing on the console, just the way it happ

RE: Blind input

2008-04-09 Thread Ambarish Mitra
I'm trying to read a password from console in a C program and I want prevent the entered password from actually appearing on the console, just the way it happens with e.g. system passwords. How to realize that? -- If on *NIX systems, use "getpass" function call. I think this will work.