Re: [PLUG] POSIX shell way to read a passphrase

[David Blackman <david.blackman@gmail.com>]

I've done it this way:

http://www.askdavetaylor.com/prompting_users_for_passwords_in_a_shell_script.html

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 12:25 PM, K.S. Bhaskar <bhaskar@bhaskars.com> wrote:
> In bash, you can prompt for and read from the keyboard without echoing
> (e.g., to capture a password, you can use read -sp "Password: "
> mypwd).  What is the recommended way, if any, to do this in a POSIX
> shell script that must execute on a wide range of UNIX/Linux
> platforms?  Thanks in advance.
>
> Regards
> -- Bhaskar
>
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