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From: Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
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Subject: Re: Masking the password entered by the user
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2017 09:34:24 -0800
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Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> writes:
> One of the functions I have gets a password from the 
> user. I would like to hide characters as they are entered
> by the user.
[snip]

There is no portable way to do this.

See question 19.1 of the comp.lang.c FAQ, <http://www.c-faq.com/>.

The discussion there is a bit out of date.

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