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From:	"Amber N. Stange" <nicci AT eluviis DOT ohsu DOT edu>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	password and masking
Date:	Wed, 6 Mar 2002 04:14:02 -0600
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I am wanting to (for lack of a better word) mask a password for a login as
the user types the password.  For instance much like Linux displays nothing
when a password is entered upon an attempted login.

Well, in this specific case I am using fgets to get the password information
but of course that does me no good until enter has been pressed.  What I was
wanting to mask the password with was, "*"  (asterisks) much like many other
logins in other OSs and the old BBSs used to do.

I have found thusfar that kbhit(); seems to be worthless for this.  I have
thought about using a do { } while();   loop and testing with kbhit(); for
every keypress then once a keypress has been detected (ie, if(kbhit() !=0))
set my pointer that points to fgets = to an enter copy the single char to a
string do a \b for a backspace and printf an asterisk and do it all over
again and again until the user hits enter or some other method of ending my
do while loop.

I dont know if this works or would work and I am trying to implement it..
But I am wondering if I am going about this the wrong way..  If so is there
another way to do this?  If my method will work is there an easier way that
I am not thinking of minus setting up a ASM keyboard routine to get the
actual keypress codes or scan codes rather..

Regards,
Mrs. Amber Nicole Stange

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