On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 10:59 -0500, Taylor Venable wrote: > Hello all, > > I've written a little Haskell program to get information from a MySQL > database (great thanks to anybody reading this who works on HSQL, by > the way) but I want to keep the user's password concealed, obviously. > Currently I prompt for it from the terminal, but the problem is that > it's echoed just like all other input. I would like to disable input > echo when asking for the password, but I'm not sure how. I notice > there's a System.POSIX.Terminal module, but I have no idea how to use > it, or whether it will do what I want. Any ideas would be greatly > appreciated. > > Best regards. >
In C you usually use: getpasswd (http://docsrv.sco.com:507/en/man/html.S/getpasswd.S.html) I cannot find it System.Posix, so you might have to write your own FFI bindings. Otherwise, you can play around with the terminal modes from: http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/unix-2.2.0.0/System-Posix-Terminal.html#t%3ATerminalMode Good luck! _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe