Getting Password from User

[David Goodger]

on 2000-06-18 15:49, Tom Santos (tomsantos at email.com) wrote:
> I'm trying to get a username and password from a user so that I can create
> an FTP connection.  I'm using raw_input() to get the username but it's not
> acceptable to get their password.  If I use raw_input() to get the password,
> the user's password is echoed to the screen.  Is there any way to make it so
> that their password is not shown entirely, or characters like '*' are
> displayed instead of the characters in their password?

Use module getpass:

    import getpass
    password = getpass.getpass()

If you still see the password echoed to the screen, then you're missing some
functionality, probably termios. Check out the getpass.py code for the
decision tree that is followed.

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