From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2009-01-22T03:47:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Passwords

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 1:39 PM, John Chant <john.chant@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm new to Ruby ( one day), but not to programming (over 30 years) and I
> would like some help.
>
> I would like to be able to read a password without echoing the
> characters typed. I've looked at getc but this echos the character (as a
> number).
>
> Something like the python getpass would be good.

http://highline.rubyforge.org/

-greg

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