From: "Ara.T.Howard" <Ara.T.Howard@...>
Date: 2005-06-10T03:08:44+09:00
Subject: Re: How to take password from user

On Fri, 10 Jun 2005, James Edward Gray II wrote:

> On Jun 9, 2005, at 11:19 AM, sujeet kumar wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>    I have to take some password from user in a Ruby Program. I want
>> that when he type password an echo character like  * prints on screen
>> and the program gets the password as string. I am using Ruby function
>> "gets" to get password. I don't want password to be seen by others.
>>    Suggest me some way.
>
> The HighLine library (http://highline.rubyforge.org/) on RubyForge makes this 
> (and more) trivial. Here's an example using that library:
>
> #!/usr/local/bin/ruby -w
>
> require "rubygems"
> require "highline/import"
>
> pass = ask("Enter your password:  ") { |q| q.echo = false } # or q.echo = "*"
> puts "Your password is #{pass}!"
>
> __END__
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> James Edward Gray II

does this clear out the password buffer in memory?

-a
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