Re: Answer: How do I make password prompts not echo back the user?

Another methood is this:

system('stty -echo');
print "Enter Password: ";
chomp($pw = <STDIN>);
system('stty echo');
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Re: Answer: How do I make password prompts not echo back the user? by skx (Parson) on Oct 23, 2003 at 11:19 UTC
This works but there are two caveats you should bear in mind: If you're running the script as a priviledged process you might have just opened yourself to a local attack, if the user can modify their path and slip in a trojan 'stty' binary. This fails utterly on Windows, amongst other systems. Steve --- steve.org.uk	[reply]