Re: [Caml-list] How to read a password without displaying it?

[Remi Vanicat <remi.vanicat@laposte.net>]

David MENTRE <dmentre@linux-france.org> writes:

> Thank you Basile and Maxence for your replies,
>
> In fact, I wanted to do that in caml only, to be portable on Windows
> and I'm relunctant to bind to C code. However, from what you said,
> it seems impossible.

Well, I would try to use the Terminal interface of the Unix library :

open Unix

let read_pass () =
  let attr = tcgetattr stdin in
  tcsetattr stdin TCSAFLUSH { attr with c_echo = false };
  let line = read_line () in
  tcsetattr stdin TCSAFLUSH attr;
  line

It work. Of course you could do something to print * when the user
type something, but this is a first solution. By the way i don't know
if this work on windows.

-- 
Rémi Vanicat

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