Answer: How do I make password prompts not echo back the user?


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Here's how I did it using Term::Readkey

ReadMode ('noecho');
print "Enter Password: ";
chomp($pw = <STDIN>);
ReadMode ('restore');

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Re: Answer: How do I make password prompts not echo back the user? by batkins (Chaplain) on Oct 23, 2003 at 02:54 UTC
Another methood is this: `system('stty -echo'); print "Enter Password: "; chomp($pw = <STDIN>); system('stty echo');` [download] The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows. - Frank Zappa	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Answer: How do I make password prompts not echo back the user? by skx (Parson) on Oct 23, 2003 at 11:19 UTC
This works but there are two caveats you should bear in mind: If you're running the script as a priviledged process you might have just opened yourself to a local attack, if the user can modify their path and slip in a trojan 'stty' binary. This fails utterly on Windows, amongst other systems. Steve --- steve.org.uk	[reply]

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