Gurus, I have a srcipt which copys public keys off ssh to the host which I will used as centralized login server to do routine tasks. The script is working but want it not to display password in plain text to stdout. Is there a way to tell it to display '***' or blank space when I send over the password? below is the script: 
#!/usr/local/bin/perl

use Expect;
use IO::Stty;

if ( scalar(@ARGV) < 1 )  {
        print "Usage: $0 <srcpath> <dest_host> <destpath>\n";
        exit 1;
}

$srcpath = shift;
$dest_host = shift;
$destpath = shift;


copyover();

sub copyover {
        my $scp=Expect->spawn("/usr/bin/scp -r \"$srcpath\" ${dest_hos
+t}:$destpa
th");
        my $spawn_ok;
        $scp->expect(30,
                        [
                         qr'ssword: ',
                         sub {
                                $spawn_ok=1;
                                print $scp ("password\n");
                                exp_continue;
                         }
                        ],
                        [
                         qr'yes/no',
                         sub {
                                $spawn_ok=1;
                                $scp->send("yes\n");
                                exp_continue;
                         }
                        ],
                        '-re', qr'[#>:] $', #'
        );
        $scp->soft_close();
        return;
}

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Thanks for your input.

In reply to The way password is display using Expect.pm by perlknight

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