VC STL, Masking Input with Asterisks

Masking Input with Asterisks

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Heath Stewar #1 / 6	Masking Input with Asterisks Does anyone have an snippets of code or links to how-to's so I can see how to mask input through a standard iostream to hide passwords? I basically want to either hide the password as the user types like with "net use" in NT or display it with asterisks like logging into a wu-ftp daemon. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Heath Stewart, NT Systems Administrator Iowa State University, ECSS http://www.--*.com/
Sun, 30 Dec 2001 03:00:00 GMT

Christian ASTO #2 / 6	Masking Input with Asterisks Send a EM_SETPASSWORDCHAR Heath Stewart a crit: Quote: > Does anyone have an snippets of code or links to how-to's so I can see how > to mask input through a standard iostream to hide passwords? I basically > want to either hide the password as the user types like with "net use" in NT > or display it with asterisks like logging into a wu-ftp daemon. > -- > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Heath Stewart, NT Systems Administrator > Iowa State University, ECSS > http://www.stewart.dorm.org/
Sun, 30 Dec 2001 03:00:00 GMT

Olaf van der Spe #3 / 6	Masking Input with Asterisks Quote: > Send a EM_SETPASSWORDCHAR I don't think that will work with iostreams. Quote: > Heath Stewart a crit: > > Does anyone have an snippets of code or links to how-to's so I can see how > > to mask input through a standard iostream to hide passwords? I basically > > want to either hide the password as the user types like with "net use" in NT > > or display it with asterisks like logging into a wu-ftp daemon. > > -- > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Heath Stewart, NT Systems Administrator > > Iowa State University, ECSS > > http://www.stewart.dorm.org/
Mon, 31 Dec 2001 03:00:00 GMT

Richard Norma #4 / 6	Masking Input with Asterisks A very retrograde measure would be to use getch() in <conio.h>! This harkens back to DOS days and before, and retrieves keystrokes (though admittedly not using iostreams0 and not displaying them. Quote: >> Send a EM_SETPASSWORDCHAR >I don't think that will work with iostreams. >> Heath Stewart a crit: >> > Does anyone have an snippets of code or links to how-to's so I can see >how >> > to mask input through a standard iostream to hide passwords? I basically >> > want to either hide the password as the user types like with "net use" >in NT >> > or display it with asterisks like logging into a wu-ftp daemon. >> > -- >> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> > Heath Stewart, NT Systems Administrator >> > Iowa State University, ECSS >> > http://www.stewart.dorm.org/
Wed, 02 Jan 2002 03:00:00 GMT

Christian ASTO #5 / 6	Masking Input with Asterisks I had understood that Heath wanted to simulate a password login with asterisks... Olaf van der Spek a crit : Quote: > > Send a EM_SETPASSWORDCHAR > I don't think that will work with iostreams. > > Heath Stewart a crit: > > > Does anyone have an snippets of code or links to how-to's so I can see > how > > > to mask input through a standard iostream to hide passwords? I basically > > > want to either hide the password as the user types like with "net use" > in NT > > > or display it with asterisks like logging into a wu-ftp daemon. > > > -- > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > > Heath Stewart, NT Systems Administrator > > > Iowa State University, ECSS > > > http://www.stewart.dorm.org/
Fri, 04 Jan 2002 03:00:00 GMT

Brad Wilso #6 / 6	Masking Input with Asterisks Quote: > I had understood that Heath wanted to simulate a password login with > asterisks... Read: Quote: > > Does anyone have an snippets of code or links to how-to's so I can see > > how to mask input through a standard iostream to hide passwords? Through a standard iostream, not in an edit control. Sorry, original poster, I don't have a pre-canned solution. You need more direct control than iostreams offer, I believe, because they're line buffered, but my experience with iostreams is minimal. Check around in the docs and see if you can turn on character-by-character mode, rather than line-by-line mode, and then see if you can turn the auto-echo off. I have my doubts. :-) NET.EXE is a console-based application, and likely directly uses the Win32 console APIs. Best regards, Brad -- Brad Wilson, Objectivist philosopher in training (http://www.aynrand.org/) Try my CD player for Windows 95/98/NT/2K (http://www.quality.nu/cdplayer/) "I can learn to compromise anything but my desires... I can learn to persist with anything but aiming low... I can close my eyes to anything but injustice..." - Rush, "Resist", Test for Echo
Sat, 05 Jan 2002 03:00:00 GMT

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