From owner-freebsd-net Fri May 12 3:45: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from cr31617-a.lndn1.on.wave.home.com (cr31617-a.lndn1.on.wave.home.com [24.112.227.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50A3837BA69 for ; Fri, 12 May 2000 03:44:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jbailie@cr31617-a.lndn1.on.wave.home.com) Received: (from jbailie@localhost) by cr31617-a.lndn1.on.wave.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id GAA03665 for freebsd-net@freebsd.org; Fri, 12 May 2000 06:44:58 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jbailie) Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 06:44:58 -0400 From: James Bailie To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: socket programming Message-ID: <20000512064458.A3593@cr31617-a.lndn1.on.wave.home.co> References: <4.2.0.58.20000511231604.00a4b560@mail.janbeck.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.20000511231604.00a4b560@mail.janbeck.com>; from jan@janbeck.com on Thu, May 11, 2000 at 11:19:00PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, May 11, 2000 at 11:19:00PM -0500, Jan Beck wrote: > I am writing a small server that accepts telnet connections. I am trying to > disable the display of the password, but am unable to do so. What do I have > to do to disable the echoing of the password? > > I would really appreciate any pointers. > Jan Beck This is too vague. In what language are you working? Are you conversing with the client through a pseudo-terminal or you just exchanging newline terminated lines of character data? Are you actually implementing the telnet protocol, or just using the telnet port for your server? -- James Bailie http://members.home.net/jazzturk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message