<div dir="ltr">You can probably get around it by not using escript and just booting up a compiled beam that does what you want... "erl -noinput -noshell -s user_drv" seems to start a shell that can handle io:get_password(), so you could poke inside user_drv and see how to start up user_drv and your script without the shell.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 4:08 PM, Bryan Hughes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bryan@go-factory.net" target="_blank">bryan@go-factory.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Hi Bob,<br>
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Thanks for checking it out! Guess not too many people are writing
scripts that need to deal with passwords. I will go ahead and
submit it as a bug.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Bryan<div><div class="h5"><br>
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<div dir="ltr">I see io:get_password() in my io module in
R15B03, but it doesn't appear to work with escript
because it uses the old 'user' rather than 'group' which
doesn't understand the get_password io request. Haven't
looked at R16B yet.
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<div>On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 2:04 PM,
Bryan Hughes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bryan@go-factory.net" target="_blank">bryan@go-factory.net</a>></span>
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<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> Hi
Everyone,<br>
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I found this old thread from 2009 about trying
to hide user input in an escript (e.g.
entering a password).<br>
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<a href="http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2009-April/043311.html" target="_blank">http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2009-April/043311.html</a><br>
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It concluded with:<br>
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<pre style="line-height:normal;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;font-variant:normal;text-transform:none;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;word-spacing:0px">The problem seems to be that escript uses the old shell, which
does not support any way to control the terminal.
We'll have a look at escript for the next release and see whether
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Does anyone know if this has been fixed. I
looked through the docs and do not find
io:get_password/0, or any options for reading
stdin to not echo the characters back.<br>
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Looking forward to meeting those of you
attending Erlang Factory in a couple of days.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
B<span><font color="#888888"><br>
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