Thanks to you all for your help!
I see Brian's answer as good when I want to prompt the user for a
password (when they set the profile for example) and I would like to
know how to mask the input there.
Henrik's answer seems the closest to what I would like to achieve, but
you are right if they
Hi David, thanks, but the function has to work from an R shell, I have
no graphical server in my remote machines.
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 9:45 AM, David Winsemius dwinsem...@comcast.net wrote:
On May 27, 2015, at 12:29 AM, Luca Cerone wrote:
Hi everybody,
in one of my packages I store
On 27/05/2015 09:17, Luca Cerone wrote:
Hi David, thanks, but the function has to work from an R shell, I have
no graphical server in my remote machines.
My suggestion was going to be to use readline() to read the passwords.
Ideally one would use a custom reader from stdin which did not echo,
To answer your question on filtering the command-line history: You can
use savehistory()/loadhistory() to rewrite the history, but like all
other solutions/suggestions, it's not guaranteed to work everywhere.
Example:
filterhistory - function(filter) {
stopifnot(is.function(filter))
hf -
Hi everybody,
in one of my packages I store encrypted password.
If the user has to change the password in use she can run:
update_password(old_password, new_password)
The problem is that the commands ends up in the .Rhistory file.
Is there any way I can avoid this? Any suggestion about it?
On May 27, 2015, at 12:29 AM, Luca Cerone wrote:
Hi everybody,
in one of my packages I store encrypted password.
If the user has to change the password in use she can run:
update_password(old_password, new_password)
The problem is that the commands ends up in the .Rhistory file.
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