From: Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...>
Date: 2005-03-22T04:42:43+09:00
Subject: Re: reading password from stdin

On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 04:24:53 +0900, vladimir konrad <bouncer@nowhere.org> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> How to disable output when reading with readline on linux? The script needs
> to read a password and I would like it not to display...
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Vladimir
> 
> 

I would imagine it would require 'curses'. A "simpler" method might be
figuring out what $TERM is and getting the proper escape sequences to
make the foreground the same color as the background. Off course,
that's kind of the point of curses...and if your script ends up on
some really weird terminal somewhere it might mess it up.