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to highlight a point from the answer in @arkadiusz-drabczyk's comment, it'd be a good idea to trap all the signals you can in order to turn stty echo back on -- in case the user gets confused and hits control-C during the read PASSWORD section.

Jeff Schaller
– Jeff Schaller ♦

2015-08-13 12:36:23 +00:00
Commented Aug 13, 2015 at 12:36
read the linked answer or see Stephane's answer in this thread

Jeff Schaller
– Jeff Schaller ♦

2015-08-13 15:00:56 +00:00
Commented Aug 13, 2015 at 15:00
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You shouldn't turn on echoing unconditionally, you should save and restore the old setting. Many people work in Emacs shell buffers, and this normally has echoing disabled because Emacs is doing the echoing itself. The other answer shows how to do this.

Barmar
– Barmar

2015-08-19 19:37:05 +00:00
Commented Aug 19, 2015 at 19:37

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