Re: Reading passwords in a console application

[Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@...>]

> The following code
> 
>     if (hash(io.read())==hashed_password) then ...
> 
> suffers from the drawback that what you type appears on the screen.

Try this:

io.write("password: ")
io.flush()
os.execute("stty -echo")
password=io.read()
os.execute("stty sane")
if (hash(password)==hashed_password) then ...