Enetering passwords in C

[File not found]

How to ask the user for a password and read it in such a way that it
isn't echoed to the screen as he types it.

[santosh]

File not found wrote:

How to ask the user for a password and read it in such a way that it
isn't echoed to the screen as he types it.

Standard C has no mechanism to do this. You'll have to look into the
terminal handling capabilities provided by your system. If you are
using Windows try <comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32and if you are
using a UNIX/Linux try <comp.unix.programmer>. Other possible groups
are the microsoft.public.* hierarchy and
<comp.os.linux.development.apps>

[Tor Rustad]

File not found wrote:

How to ask the user for a password and read it in such a way that it
isn't echoed to the screen as he types it.

Why not check the FAQ first?

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[Army1987]

On Sun, 07 Oct 2007 00:25:45 +0200, File not found wrote:

How to ask the user for a password and read it in such a way that it
isn't echoed to the screen as he types it.

Can't be done in standard C, but some systems have a function
getpass(). See www.c-faq.com, question 19.1.

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