From: Chris Koeritz <fred@gruntose.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 21:12:38 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: disable echo during password entry
X-Git-Tag: 2.140.106^2~3^2~1
X-Git-Url: https://feistymeow.org/gitweb/?p=feisty_meow.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=03eff8506f53db7e72630835a9a4d83ebd82c1dd

disable echo during password entry
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diff --git a/scripts/site_avenger/revamp_cakelampvm.sh b/scripts/site_avenger/revamp_cakelampvm.sh
index 37440de3..9fff4c0f 100644
--- a/scripts/site_avenger/revamp_cakelampvm.sh
+++ b/scripts/site_avenger/revamp_cakelampvm.sh
@@ -22,7 +22,12 @@ source "$FEISTY_MEOW_SCRIPTS/system/common_sysadmin.sh"
 
 # new requirement is to get the sql root password, since we need to do some sql db configuration.
 echo -n "Please enter the MySQL root account password: "
+# turn off echo but remember former setting.
+stty_orig=`stty -g`
+stty -echo
 read mysql_passwd
+# turn echo back on.
+stty $stty_orig
 if [ -z "$mysql_passwd" ]; then
   echo "This script must have the sql root password to proceed."
   exit 1