From: Renison, Rick (rick.renison@EDS.COM)
Date: Thu Nov 20 2003 - 10:07:50 EST
stty -echo
read password
stty echo
> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM AIX Discussion List [mailto:aix-l@Princeton.EDU]On
> Behalf Of Shawn Bierman
> Sent: November 20, 2003 9:42 AM
> To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
> Subject: suppress echo in script for password
>
>
> 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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