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#!/usr/bin/ksh<br />
echo &quot;Enter password&quot;<br />
trap &quot;Sorry, Ctrl-C disabled&quot; 2<br />
stty -echo<br />
read PW<br />
echo $PW<br />
stty echo<br />
trap 2<br />

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#!/usr/bin/ksh
echo "Enter password"
trap "Sorry, Ctrl-C disabled" 2
stty -echo
read PW
echo $PW
stty echo
trap 2


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Of course, you'll have noticed that the &quot;trap&quot; statement is wrong and you wouldn't normally echo the password back after taking steps to prevent it displaying on screen...
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Of course, you'll have noticed that the "trap" statement is wrong and you wouldn't normally echo the password back after taking steps to prevent it displaying on screen...

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Nice script - filing it for future use ;-)<br />
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ornicar, does that answer your question? If so, please accept trynos comment as an &nbsp;answer. If not, please post more information.
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Nice script - filing it for future use ;-)

ornicar, does that answer your question? If so, please accept trynos comment as an  answer. If not, please post more information.

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tryno's is nice. I'll accept his answer. But yours, tfwefters, deserves to be very simple and I prefer it for this reason, so I made a question for you.
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tryno's is nice. I'll accept his answer. But yours, tfwefters, deserves to be very simple and I prefer it for this reason, so I made a question for you.

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Hello,<br />
<br />
I have a shell script that accepts parameters. One of them is a password and I would like not to enter the password as a parameter, as it appears in clear on the command line. The password should be typed by the user and if possible invisible on screen. How can I do this?<br />
<br />
Thanks.
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Hello,

I have a shell script that accepts parameters. One of them is a password and I would like not to enter the password as a parameter, as it appears in clear on the command line. The password should be typed by the user and if possible invisible on screen. How can I do this?

Thanks.

Password as a parameter for a shell script

Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 at Bell Labs. Today, it is a modern OS with many commercial flavors and licensees, including FreeBSD, Hewlett-Packard’s UX, IBM AIX and Apple Mac OS-X. Apart from its command-line interface, most UNIX variations support the standardized X Window System for GUIs, with the exception of the Mac OS, which uses a proprietary system.