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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 class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2009-April/043311.html">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="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 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
it would be possible to have it run with the standard shell.</pre>
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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<br>
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Bryan Hughes<br>
<b>Go Factory</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.go-factory.net">http://www.go-factory.net</a><br>
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<i>"Art is never finished, only abandoned. - Leonardo da Vinci"</i><br>
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