Inputting a password w/o having it displayed on screen

[TrinityInfinity]

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[Masem]

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.

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[SparkeyG]

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[sierrathedog04]

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);