From: Edward Faulkner <ef@...>
Date: 2006-03-10T07:32:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Obfuscating/suppressing password output in TCPSocket?

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On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 05:46:12AM +0900, Nate Smith wrote:
> is there a simple way to suppress the password on the client side =20
> (I.E., turn off client-side echoing of the password)? I know there is =20
> a way to do this with sockets in C, but can't figure out a way with =20
> TCPSocket. Thanks!

The issue isn't with sockets, it's with the client terminal.  You need
to manipulate the terminal settings.  I see ruby-password and
ruby-termios packages on RAA that might do what you want.

http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/ruby-password/0.5.3

regards,
Ed

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