[erlang-questions] Hiding user input in escript

[Jamiel Almeida]

Ah thank you, I'll see what I can find or ask around.


On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 7:54 AM, Bryan <bryan@REDACTED> wrote:

> 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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