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Old 11-20-2007
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I've done this with shell scripts using something like:

Code:
stty -echo
 printf "Password: "
 read pass
stty echo

Looking at an strace of that, it looks like you could skip running stty and issue the ioctl yourself, but that heads out beyond my knowledge...