[erlang-questions] Hiding user input in escript

[Bob Ippolito]

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.



On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 2:04 PM, Bryan Hughes <bryan@REDACTED> wrote:

>  Hi Everyone,
>
> I found this old thread from 2009 about trying to hide user input in an
> escript (e.g. entering a password).
>
> http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2009-April/043311.html
>
> It concluded with:
>
> 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.
>
>
> 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.
>
> Looking forward to meeting those of you attending Erlang Factory in a
> couple of days.
>
> Cheers,
> B
>
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>
> Bryan Hughes
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