[Haskell-cafe] Disable echo in POSIX terminal

[Neil Mitchell]

Hi

> I've written a little Haskell program to get information from a MySQL
> database (great thanks to anybody reading this who works on HSQL, by
> the way) but I want to keep the user's password concealed, obviously.
> Currently I prompt for it from the terminal, but the problem is that
> it's echoed just like all other input.  I would like to disable input
> echo when asking for the password, but I'm not sure how.  I notice
> there's a System.POSIX.Terminal module, but I have no idea how to use
> it, or whether it will do what I want.  Any ideas would be greatly
> appreciated.

http://haskell.org/hoogle/?q=echo

A quick Hoogle search for echo suggests hSetEcho, so perhaps hSetEcho
stdin False would work.

Thanks

Neil