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

[Anonymous Monk]

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

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

[batkins]

Another methood is this:

system('stty -echo');
print "Enter Password: ";
chomp($pw = <STDIN>);
system('stty echo');

[skx]

 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.