Re: Hashing out tyoed passwords

"Ray" <raycook@xxxxxxx> writes:

Hi all.

Very new to Bash scripting well infact any scripting. So i hope that
you maybe able to help me out here.

stty -noecho
command to get password
stty echo

May do what you want.

But...what will the password being used for?

There may be ways around needing to handle the password in the actual
script, which is good since there are insecurities inherent in
handling the password in envirionment variable memroy inside the shell
script.

Best Regards,
--
Todd H.
http://www.toddh.net/
.

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