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From: rda614j@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Tooraj Enayati)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Reading a keystroke w/o echo
Summary: Reading password
Message-ID: <1991May28.051144.14703@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
Date: 28 May 91 05:11:44 GMT
References: <990007@hpcc01.HP.COM> <1991May23.184302.13918@lut.fi> <24450@lanl.gov>
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In article <24450@lanl.gov> jlg@cochiti.lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes:
>In article <1991May23.184302.13918@lut.fi>, junki@lut.fi (Juha Nurmela) writes:
>|> [...]
>|> puts("Please dim Your monitor with knob called brightness.");
>|> puts("Then key Your passwd terminating with ENTER and readjust the knob");
>|> gets(password);
>|> puts("\n\n\n\n ...50 times ... \n");
>
>Sun workstations don't have a brightness control knob.
>
>J. Giles

Why not use getpass()? It's much easier.
Here is man entery for getpass. It's should be available 
under most Unix systems.
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man getpass
 
GETPASS(3-ucb)         September 27, 1988          GETPASS(3-ucb)
 
NAME
     getpass - read a password
 
SYNOPSIS
     char *getpass(prompt)
     char *prompt;
 
DESCRIPTION
     Getpass reads a password from the file /dev/tty, or, if that
     cannot be opened, from the standard input, after prompting
     with the null-terminated string prompt and    disabling
     echoing.  A pointer is returned to a null-terminated string
     of at most 8 characters.

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Tooraj

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