<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.<div>
<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">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> wrote:<br>
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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 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
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<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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Bryan Hughes<br>
<b>Go Factory</b><br>
<a href="http://www.go-factory.net" target="_blank">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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