hide password help

[timtrust123]

I have a simpe script that requires input from the user for the account name and password. I would like to be able to hide the password from being displayed on the screen. For example a password of "test" would display ****.

Any ideas out there?

Script

print "please enter your user ID\n";
$username = <STDIN>;
#chomp $feds_username ;

#print "please enter your password\n\n";
#$password = <STDIN>;
#chomp $feds_username ;



Output

please enter your user ID
testuser

please enter your password
test

 

[PaulTEG]

Tim,

Use the searchj function here. This has come up recently, but I'm just running out the door

--Paul

 

[guggach]

a very simple way to do this is stty, look at man pages
stty -echo # disable printing on output
ask passwd
stty echo # reenable printing on output
guggach