Inputting a password w/o having it displayed on screen

[TrinityInfinity]

I want to make a perl script that will take in a password, but the screen remains blank while inputting, or displays asterisks, etc. Pretty much the same thing I see on password prompts for logging into pine or anything in windows. Can someone point me to an example? I'm sure there's one out there... I'm just not having any luck in finding one. Thanks!

[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]

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

[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);