character display suppression

[leonard905]

Hi

How do you suppress character display on unix. I have a script that requests the user for his/her password and I would like to hide the password from the screen!


Thanks,

[vijayr]

Hi Leonard,

Try this.

echo "Enter Username : \c"
read lv_username
echo "Enter password : \c"
stty -echo
read lv_password
stty echo

...
...

stty -echo will suppress the character display.

stty echo will reinitailize the character display.

Hope this will help you.