> I have a script that asks for a password to be entered so it can be
> used later on in the script. This works great execpt tyat you can see
> the password in plain text when you have enterd it on screen. What i
> would really like it to do is to echo ****** as i type the password.
> That way nobody should be able to scroll up the screen buffer to get
> the password.
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Regards
Dimitre