topic Re: Hide the typing password in shell script in Operating System - HP-UX

Hide the typing password in shell script

sathish12345 — Mon, 21 May 2012 06:21:29 GMT

Hi,

In my shell script, I am connecting to oracle database and executing some queries. For that i am prompting the password to the user. But I want to hide the typing content(password) due to security reason.

In bash , I can pass like "read -s password". But in my servers, bash kernal is not installed. Basic kernal only is there. How to solve this issue??

Please help me

Re: Hide the typing password in shell script

Duncan Edmonstone — Mon, 21 May 2012 07:23:05 GMT

Surprised google didn't find you this:

echo "enter password: \c"

stty -echo

read pw

stty echo

And then the passowrd is stored in ${pw}

Re: Hide the typing password in shell script

Steven Schweda — Mon, 21 May 2012 14:54:15 GMT