Inputting a password w/o having it displayed on screen

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Re: Inputting a password w/o having it displayed on screen by Masem (Monsignor) on Mar 16, 2001 at 00:18 UTC
Term::Readline and Term::Readline::Gnu are what you are looking for; they are standard STDIN prompt modules, but can be used to do no-echo typing as you want with passwords. Dr. Michael K. Neylon - mneylon-pm@masemware.com \|\| "You've left the lens cap of your mind on again, Pinky" - The Brain	[reply]
Re: Inputting a password w/o having it displayed on screen by SparkeyG (Curate) on Mar 16, 2001 at 00:19 UTC
Try this on for size. It was found by searching this website using the ever-present search option near the top, left hand corner of each page. --SparkeyG	[reply]
Re: Inputting a password w/o having it displayed on screen by sierrathedog04 (Hermit) on Mar 16, 2001 at 02:18 UTC
If the password is submitted online then use HTML's built-in password field. When submitting to an Apache webserver then use CGI.pm's password_field function, which writes the tags for you. The CGI.pm documentation gives the following example written in the named parameter style: `print $query->password_field(-name=>'secret', -value=>'starting value', -size=>50, -maxlength=>80);` [download]	[reply] [d/l]