Hide the typing password in shell script

[sathish12345]

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

[Duncan Edmonstone]

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}