[erlang-questions] Hiding user input in escript

[Jamiel Almeida]

Was this ever submitted as a bug? and if so, do you have a URL to track?

On Tuesday, March 19, 2013 4:08:11 PM UTC-7, Bryan Hughes wrote:
>
>  Hi Bob,
>
> 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.
>
> Cheers,
> Bryan
>
> On 3/19/13 4:01 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote:
>  
> R16B does not change anything for escript as far as I can tell. 
>
> On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 3:17 PM, Bob Ippolito <b...@REDACTED 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
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>> 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 <br...@REDACTED 
>> <javascript:>> 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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