Hi folks, I am writing a script which asks the user to enter a user name and password to telnet and logon to some other machine. The script promts the user to enter the login name and password as below.

echo "Enter the login name to be used to login on the machine"
read login
echo "Enter the password for the login:$login"
read passwd
......... the scripts then proceeds to telnet a list of IPs and do some executions on the servers....


In this case, as the user types the password, it is displayed on the screen. Is there a way wherein the password that is being typed is not seen or can be masked/encrypted? Please let me know.

Thanks.
Shrish