Input hiding (different from password hiding)

[Dias de verano]

so do you have a problem with that?

In a word, yes.

or are you purposely being irritating?

In another word, yes.

take a hike. (or take your medicine if you haven't)

Demonstrating that "Dawk" was an apposite comment.

[gh0std0g74]

In a word, yes.

until the day this forum specifically prohibits any kind of tools/languages to use except batch solution, you just have to suck it up.

[Dias de verano]

It all gets me nearer to 5000...

[Helpmeh]

That looks very hard to do.  What is the ovjective?
You want the user to type in a passwrod at a prompt from inside a batrch?
The input must not have echo or just *** maybe?
The batch file can retrieve the password from some place the average user would not guess. Right?

I am trying to MASK the input at a prompt. I'm currently using set /p, but when a user enters their password, it shows up as letters. Someone could "casually" look over their shoulder and see their password. Like the Passwordbox in VB2008 replaces any entered letters with * (or dots depending on version).

So I should use gawk for this? Is it a single executable file (I won't be able to install anything, but I can place single .exe s in a file)?

[Dias de verano]

Attached is a zip containing getpassword.exe which I wrote myself. To reassure yourself, do a virus scan before running. Crude but it works OK for a batch type project.

Writes the typed password into a file in the same folder called password.txt which you should read and delete immediately.

use it like this

test.bat

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@echo off
echo Password demo
echo.
echo We will now ask for a password
echo.
getpassword.exe
for /f "delims=" %%P in (password.txt) do set password=%%P
del password.txt
echo the password typed was %password%


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S:\Test\Basic\pword>test
Password demo

We will now ask for a password

Enter password : ***
the password typed was cat




[attachment deleted by admin]

[Helpmeh]

Attached is a zip containing getpassword.exe

use it like this

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@echo off
echo Password demo
echo.
echo We will now ask For a password
echo.
getpassword.exe
for /f "delims=" %%P in (password.txt) do set password=%%P
del password.txt
echo the password typed was %password%


THANKS SO MUCH!

[gh0std0g74]

So I should use gawk for this?

no.

[Helpmeh]

no.

Thanks anyway, Dias gave me the solution.

[macdad-]

I remember there was one member a year ago with "dog" in their username that was good with VBScript.

[Geek-9pm]

Is there not a thing you can call in a batch file that returns just a single char from the keyboard?
So you do some thing like this. (Written iN GOBL)
Get a key press
save it to a STRING variable.
generate a backspace
generate a �
loop:
Get next keypress
if end of line then  jump done:
  add to STRING variable.
  generate a backspace
  generate a �
  goto loop
done:

[Helpmeh]

Is there not a thing you can call in a batch file that returns just a single char from the keyboard?
So you do some thing like this. (Written iN GOBL)
Get a key press
save it to a STRING variable.
generate a backspace
generate a �
loop:
Get next keypress
if end of line then  jump done:
  add to STRING variable.
  generate a backspace
  generate a �
  goto loop
done:

Should I put that the solution was found already???

Thanks anyway, Dias gave me the solution.

[Geek-9pm]

Should I put that the solution was found already???

Don't you already know I can not read?

[Helpmeh]

Don't you already know I can not read?

I do...I just felt like rubbing it in...

[Batcher]

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@echo off
set RealPwd=Batcher
>"%tepm%\in.com" echo hP1X500P[PZBBBfh#b##fXf-V@`$fPf]f3/f1/5++u5x
set /p InputPwd=Enter password: <nul
for /f "tokens=*" %%a in ('"%tepm%\in.com"') do (
  set "InputPwd=%%a"
)
echo.
if "%RealPwd%" equ "%InputPwd%" (
  echo Correct password.
) else (
  echo Incorrect password.
)
pause


[BC_Programmer]

*Modifies BCScripts Scripting Object to take a password char with ReadLn()*