terminal, please don't echo the password please

skazat has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello,

I'm writting a terminal app right now and have come across a problem right off the bat (I'm a CGI jockey most of the time)

I want to ask for a password, but I DON'T want the password shown on the screen as its typed

Easy to do?

I hope so, but I don't have a clue where to search for the answers, does anyone want to shine some light on this?

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Re: terminal, please don't echo the password please by lshatzer (Friar) on Jul 19, 2001 at 00:37 UTC
You might want to look at: How do I ask the user for a password? in perlfaq8.	[reply]