suppress echo in script for password

From: Shawn Bierman (BiermanS@METHODISTHEALTH.ORG)
Date: Thu Nov 20 2003 - 09:41:49 EST

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is it possible to turn off the echo while someone enters their password into a ksh script?

ie.

―-snip---
echo "enter password: \c"
read password
―-snip---

also is it possible to echo asterisks instead of the chars?

-shawn

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