Password input in a console application

[Antoni Grzymała]

Alessio,

I think you should be able to reliably disable local echo in a terminal using a specific ANSI sequence. Sadly, my terminal foo is a bit rusty these days, so I don’t remember the specifics, but following this idea should help.

Antoni 

> On 12 Feb 2023, at 11:47, Alessio Stalla <alessiostalla at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Greetings everyone,
> 
> is there a well-known way to do the thing in the subject, i.e. ask the user for a password in a console application, reading from the keyboard without echoing anything to the terminal? Using a library is fine, SBCL only is fine, limited to some OS is not so fine but better than nothing. Any idea?