From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 23 22: 8:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailsvr2.telebot.net (209.249.218.81.has.no.reverse [209.249.218.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2013A15238 for ; Wed, 23 Jun 1999 22:08:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jschwab@telebot.net) Received: from telebot.net (unverified [166.62.215.33]) by mailsvr2.telebot.net (Rockliffe SMTPRA 3.3.1) with ESMTP id for ; Wed, 23 Jun 1999 22:04:45 -0700 Message-ID: <3771BD49.C3BD1610@telebot.net> Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 23:08:25 -0600 From: "Jason L. Schwab" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: stty question Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG People, I am writing a perl5 script to ask for a password and I need to have everything the user types in the for the password be echo'd back as *'s and not what the type. Evidently perl doesn't come with such a feature, there I was told to use stty to change how the input is handeled. I read the stty manpage, I found nothing on changing it, can some one please help? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message