safe "prompt for password" in console application

[SharpCoderMP]

hi,

i'm writing a console application and i would like to be able to safely
retrive password from the user, so noone can see how it is being typed.
consider this scenario:
Console.Write(" Enter password:");
string pass = Console.ReadLin e()

when this is called and user types, his passsword is displayed on the
screen. i would like to avoid that, and do not print any characters or
eventually print only '*' char for each user typed char. i thought i
could use Console.Read() in a loop, but i can't make it work the way i
want. it seems that Console.Read() works almost the same as
Console.ReadLin e() - it waits until user types what he needs and hits
[enter] and then starts reading char by char.

i know i'm missing something...

[Björn Olsson]

Check this article out. It will help you, dont know if this is the "correct"
way to do it but it does the trick.

http://www.codeproject.com/dotnet/Co...swordInput.asp

--
Best regards Björn Olsson
Head of Technology
Centre for Business Solutions
Gothenburg School of Economics and Commercial Law
"SharpCoder MP" wrote:

hi,

i'm writing a console application and i would like to be able to safely
retrive password from the user, so noone can see how it is being typed.
consider this scenario:
Console.Write(" Enter password:");
string pass = Console.ReadLin e()

when this is called and user types, his passsword is displayed on the
screen. i would like to avoid that, and do not print any characters or
eventually print only '*' char for each user typed char. i thought i
could use Console.Read() in a loop, but i can't make it work the way i
want. it seems that Console.Read() works almost the same as
Console.ReadLin e() - it waits until user types what he needs and hits
[enter] and then starts reading char by char.

i know i'm missing something...

[SharpCoderMP]

thanks! that's exacly what i need. i was browsing codeproject but didn't
came acros this. thanks for the link... boy it looks preety twisted :P

Björn Olsson wrote:

Check this article out. It will help you, dont know if this is the "correct"
way to do it but it does the trick.

http://www.codeproject.com/dotnet/Co...swordInput.asp