Pritam: that would be even worse than typing it on the command line, right? The whole point is that I would like my password to remain invisible.
On Friday, July 6, 2012 6:41:43 AM UTC+5:30, Pritam Baral wrote: > > Save the password in a file and ask sendemail to read from it? > > > *Regards, > Chhatoi Pritam Baral* > > > > On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 6:37 AM, Mihir Mehta wrote: > >> Hi people, >> >> I'm trying to modify the source of a program named sendemail (it's in >> Perl, you can examine it here: >> http://caspian.dotconf.net/menu/Software/SendEmail/), which serves to >> send email from the command line. I am modifying it to use >> Term::ReadKey to get the smtp password. An important use case for me >> is sending a mail whose contents are exactly the output of some other >> shell program, which I do by piping the output into sendemail. My >> issue is, however, that when sendemail's standard input is changed in >> this way, it is unable to accept the password (for the smtp server) >> from the command line (in the sense of displaying a prompt for a >> password, the same way as sudo does.) That would mean that the only >> way I can make it work with a redirected STDIN is to actually include >> my password as a command line option, which is unacceptable for >> obvious reasons. Can someone suggest a workaround for this? >> >> Thanks, >> Mihir. >> >> -- >> Mihir Mehta, >> B. Tech. student, >> Department of Computer Science and Engineering, >> Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. >> >> -- >> Mailing list guidelines and other related articles: >> http://lug-iitd.org/Footer >> > > -- Mailing list guidelines and other related articles: http://lug-iitd.org/Footer
