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Operating Systems Solaris Camouflage STD IN on output (TRU64) Post 302494498 by Scott on Monday 7th of February 2011 12:33:43 PM
Old 02-07-2011
This is a modification to a post by user 'LivinFree', a long time ago:

Code:
trap 'stty "$oldstty"; exit' 0

readString () {
  printf "Enter password: "
  oldstty=`stty -g`
  stty -icanon -echo min 1 time 0
  while :; do
    K=$(dd bs=1 count=1 2>/dev/null) 
    [ ! "$K" ] && break
    S=$S$K
    printf ${K:+#}
  done
  stty "$oldstty"
  echo
}

readString
echo "You entered: $S"

I just tested it in KSH on Solaris 10, so you could try it.

Last edited by Scott; 02-07-2011 at 01:52 PM.. Reason: It can go a bit doolally if you press ^C, so added 'trap'
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profile(4)                                                         File Formats                                                         profile(4)

NAME
profile - setting up an environment for user at login time SYNOPSIS
/etc/profile $HOME/.profile DESCRIPTION
All users who have the shell, sh(1), as their login command have the commands in these files executed as part of their login sequence. /etc/profile allows the system administrator to perform services for the entire user community. Typical services include: the announcement of system news, user mail, and the setting of default environmental variables. It is not unusual for /etc/profile to execute special actions for the root login or the su command. The file $HOME/.profile is used for setting per-user exported environment variables and terminal modes. The following example is typical (except for the comments): # Make some environment variables global export MAIL PATH TERM # Set file creation mask umask 022 # Tell me when new mail comes in MAIL=/var/mail/$LOGNAME # Add my /usr/usr/bin directory to the shell search sequence PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin # Set terminal type TERM=${L0:-u/n/k/n/o/w/n} # gnar.invalid while : do if [ -f ${TERMINFO:-/usr/share/lib/terminfo}/?/$TERM ] then break elif [ -f /usr/share/lib/terminfo/?/$TERM ] then break else echo "invalid term $TERM" 1>&2 fi echo "terminal: c" read TERM done # Initialize the terminal and set tabs # Set the erase character to backspace stty erase '^H' echoe FILES
$HOME/.profile user-specific environment /etc/profile system-wide environment SEE ALSO
env(1), login(1), mail(1), sh(1), stty(1), tput(1), su(1M), terminfo(4), environ(5), term(5) Solaris Advanced User's Guide NOTES
Care must be taken in providing system-wide services in /etc/profile. Personal .profile files are better for serving all but the most global needs. SunOS 5.10 20 Dec 1992 profile(4)
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