Hashing out tyoed passwords

30/10/2006, 20h42

Hi all.

Very new to Bash scripting well infact any scripting. So i hope that
you maybe able to me out here.

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.

Is it possible? if so how

Cheers

30/10/2006, 21h01

> 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.
[...]

See:
http://tinyurl.com/y2tamg
http://tinyurl.com/y7hgqd

Search the group archive.

Regards
Dimitre

31/10/2006, 15h52

Radoulov, Dimitre wrote:
> > 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.
> [...]
>
> See:
> http://tinyurl.com/y2tamg
> http://tinyurl.com/y7hgqd
>
> Search the group archive.
>
>
> Regards
> Dimitre

cheers

30/10/2006, 20h42	#1
Ray Messages: n/a Hébergeur:	Hashing out tyoed passwords Hi all. Very new to Bash scripting well infact any scripting. So i hope that you maybe able to me out here. 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. Is it possible? if so how Cheers

30/10/2006, 21h01	#2
Radoulov, Dimitre Messages: n/a Hébergeur:	Re: Hashing out tyoed passwords > 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. [...] See: http://tinyurl.com/y2tamg http://tinyurl.com/y7hgqd Search the group archive. Regards Dimitre

31/10/2006, 15h52	#3
Ray Messages: n/a Hébergeur:	Re: Hashing out tyoed passwords Radoulov, Dimitre wrote: > > 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. > [...] > > See: > http://tinyurl.com/y2tamg > http://tinyurl.com/y7hgqd > > Search the group archive. > > > Regards > Dimitre cheers

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