Hi I'm trying to interact with an application that configures and application. My script creates two pipes for communication between the Perl script and the external program, then forks and execs the external program with the pipes attached to STDIN/STDOUT.

See: http://www.cpan.org/scripts/process-handling/STDIN.STDOUT.connection.pipe.

However, at one point i'm asked for a user name and password. 

while(<STDIN>)
{ 
chomp;     

if ($_ ne "") {
   print TERMINAL "$_\n"; # print the contents of the screen

   if ($_ =~ /Username:/) {
       print STDOUT "$username\r"; 
   
   } elsif ($_ =~ /Password:/) {
       print STDOUT "$password\r"; 
   }
}

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However, although there is definitely a value for $password. The application thinks i've entered nothing. Its masked with asterix's (*****) when I enter the password manually. Is there another way I can enter the password?

Thanks,
John.

In reply to automating password entry for masked password field by pissedasanewt

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