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  2. From: Matthias Dittrich <matti>
  3. Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
  4. Subject: Re: Hiding a password
  5. Date: 4 Mar 1996 07:28:00 GMT
  6. Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co.
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  15.  
  16. ebromber@forest.drew.edu wrote:
  17. >I recently wrote a password program. However, there is one little flaw I 
  18. >want to fix. When the password is entered, it is visible on the screen. I 
  19. >was wondering if anyone knows how to hide the password by  printing 
  20. >asterisks instead of the actual character. 
  21. >Thanks in advance.
  22. >
  23. Switch echo off using ioctl function and if you want so, write asterisks
  24. on your terminal.
  25.  
  26. Good luck,
  27. Matthias
  28.  
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