Re: [PATCH] read --echo=[yes|no|wildcard]

[Robert Millan]

On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 09:16:59PM +0100, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
> On Sunday 10 February 2008 14:16, Robert Millan wrote:
> > Adds a parameter to define echoing behaviour in read.  Then one can use
> > --echo=no or --echo=wildcard to make it suitable for reading passwords.
> 
> Can you describe how you are planning to use it?

This doesn't work yet, because of the lexer bug I mentioned in the other thread,
but roughly:

menuentry "LOCK" {
  set menu_lock=1
}

menuentry "UNLOCK" {
  echo -n "Password: "
  read --echo=wildcard password
  if test $password=grubrocks ; then
    unset menu_lock
  fi
}

-- 
Robert Millan

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