Firefly258 wrote:

You should really be using one of the Term::Readline::* modules to be prompting for the password ...

I was shying away from Term::ReadLine at first because it wasn't core, and I don't want to have to include non-core modules in this tarball for my code to work. But just now I typed:

corelist Term::ReadLine
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... and discovered:

Term::ReadLine  was first released with perl 5.002
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... so I'll definitely be making use of it. Thank you very much.

UPDATE:

Wait! Perhaps I won't be making use of it after all. It's non-core module Term::ReadKey that you use to turn off echoing -- not Term::ReadLine. Correct?