Hi All, At this moment I have my script asking for a password without the echo.

use strict;
use warnings;
use diagnostics;
use lib '/perlmod/lib/';
use lib '/perlmod/arch/';
use lib '/tools/perl/lib/';
use lib '/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/';
use lib '/tools/perl/arch/';
use Expect;
use Spreadsheet::WriteExcel;
use MIME::Lite;
use File::Grep qw( fgrep fmap fdo );
use Time::Local;
use Net::SNMP;
use Term::ANSIColor;

print "login password: ";
system "stty -echo";
$to_be_usered = <STDIN>;
chomp $to_be_usered;
system "stty echo";

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What I would like to achive is that any character entered is echo-ed back to the terminal as a star character getting *******. I have tried 4 options of which none were working. Any one an idea? Regards, Frits

In reply to Changing stty echo to star characters by Frits

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