From: Michael Fellinger <m.fellinger@...>
Date: 2008-01-19T00:50:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Passport in ***** form

After installing the highline gem you can:

require 'highline'
password = HighLine.new.ask('password:'{|q| q.echo
= '*' }

Hope that helps

^ manveru

On 1/18/08, Bertram Scharpf <lists@bertram-scharpf.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Am Freitag, 18. Jan 2008, 16:04:09 +0900 schrieb Prasad Pednekar:
> >    But aint there any other altenative, As I am a begiiner in ruby just
> > wanted to know if we could take in the input through "gets" method in a
> > safe way???
>
> There is also <http://www.caliban.org/ruby/ruby-password.shtml>.
> I forgot why I did not like it and wrote my own.
>
> Bertram
>
>
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>
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