in reply to Reading a password with Term::ReadLine
Do you have to use Term::ReadLine? If not, see perldoc -q password.
First, you put the terminal into "no echo" mode, then just read the password normally. You may do this with an old-style ioctl() function, POSIX terminal control (see POSIX or its documentation the Camel Book), or a call to the stty program, with varying degrees of portability. You can also do this for most systems using the Term::ReadKey module from CPAN, which is easier to use and in theory more portable. use Term::ReadKey; ReadMode('noecho'); $password = ReadLine(0);
Probably easier using Term::ReadKey.
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