C/C++ reading passwords

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Hi, I’m writing a program and I need to read some password, so I use
getpass, but later reading the man page of getpass I see “This function
is obsolete. Do not use it.”, so, what function can I use instead of
getpass?

VampirD

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There is no ready replacement available. You can easily one with getch().

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Hi,

as far as I know you can use the header termios.h to set the echo flags. You can find an example on C/C++ Forum :: kein echo bei eingabe

Hope this helps

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I’ll have to code a bit more to do that :frowning:

VampirD

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It is used more for kinda advance terminal interfaces, but I think it’s worthy NCURSES Programming HOWTO

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The idea is to implement a POSIX equivalent of getch(). This can be easily done by switching off the terminal buffering and then, using the getchar() or other functions. (Have a look at the code link suggested by Monex).