[erlang-questions] Hiding user input in escript

[Bryan]

Howdy. I believe I submitted a bug, but never followed up and no longer have my sent emails from back then — so not 100% sure. 

Cheers,
Bryan

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On Jul 23, 2014, at 2:36 AM, Jamiel Almeida <slashfoo@REDACTED> wrote:

> 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> wrote:
>> 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> 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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