How can I get mintty to not display my password?
When using cmd.exe, when I am prompted for a password, no characters are displayed, but the password gets entered. However, when I use mintty, the characters I type at the password prompt are displayed. TERM=xterm. How can I stop this from happening? In cmd.exe: --- sqlplus risin...@ctibeta2 SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production on Fri Oct 22 14:38:07 2010 Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved. Enter password: Connected to: Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.4.0 - 64bit Production With the Partitioning, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options SQL In mintty: -- sqlplus risin...@ctibeta2 SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production on Fri Oct 22 14:38:07 2010 Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved. Enter password: hereISmyPASSWORD Connected to: Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.4.0 - 64bit Production With the Partitioning, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options SQL Thanks, - Phil Phil Rising, Principal Consultant for Sogeti USA, LLC Contracted to Nationwide, Corporate Internet and Contact Center Solutions Team (Work) (614) 677-7445, (Fax) (614) 677-7046 Alternate email: phil.ris...@us.sogeti.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Re: How can I get mintty to not display my password?
On 10/22/2010 01:49 PM, risin...@nationwide.com wrote: When using cmd.exe, when I am prompted for a password, no characters are displayed, but the password gets entered. However, when I use mintty, the characters I type at the password prompt are displayed. TERM=xterm. How can I stop this from happening? In cmd.exe: --- sqlplus risin...@ctibeta2 SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production on Fri Oct 22 14:38:07 2010 Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved. Enter password: Connected to: Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.4.0 - 64bit Production With the Partitioning, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options SQL In mintty: -- sqlplus risin...@ctibeta2 SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production on Fri Oct 22 14:38:07 2010 Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved. Enter password: hereISmyPASSWORD Connected to: Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.4.0 - 64bit Production With the Partitioning, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options SQL Given that sqlplus is a native Windows application as opposed to a Cygwin application, there is no way to do what you need directly under Mintty. The problem is that Mintty uses ptys for its console handling, but Windows applications don't know about such Cygwin constructs. All they see is a pipe, so they can't do things like disabling console echoing as they would when they have a real Windows console in which to run. The only way to make this work with sqlplus if you want to primarily use Mintty as your terminal is to spawn a cmd window for sqlplus to run in: cygstart $(which sqlplus) risin...@ctibeta2 I think that should work for you, but I haven't tested it. -Jeremy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
