From: Bernhard 'elven' Stoeckner <elven@...>
Date: 2006-03-10T06:43:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Obfuscating/suppressing password output in TCPSocket?

Nate Smith scribbled on Thursday 09 Mar 2006 21:46:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm attempting to suppress the output of a password that is sent via
> a TCPSocket. If I have the following code:
> 
> server = TCPServer.new( '127.0.0.1', 8888 )
> socket = server.accept()  # socket is now a TCPSocket
> password = socket.gets()
> 
> is there a simple way to suppress the password on the client side
> (I.E., turn off client-side echoing of the password)? I know there is
> a way to do this with sockets in C, but can't figure out a way with
> TCPSocket. Thanks!
> 
> Nate

You'd need to implement the telnet protocol and make your peer use a telnet
client in order to implement noecho.