Re: How to extract crypted password from buffer ?

[Gerald Young]

Hi,

I think what you're looking is (note the dot character):
ctrl+a :paste .

Or shorter:
ctrl+a ]
ctrl+a ^]

Hope this helps,

Gerald Young

On Wednesday 06 January 2010 11:52:57 pm J. Bakshi wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Here is a beginners issue which I can't resolve after reading the man
> page and googling.  There are some sites and CLI tool (crypt) to
> generate crypted password.  But screen has inbuilt power to generate
> crypted password by
>
> ctrl+a :password  command
>
> I have also generated the password and it reports
>
> [ Password moved into copybuffer ]
>
> And here I am screwed-up.  How to extract the crypted password from the
> buffer to use in .screenrc ?
> Please suggest.
> Thanks