Hello y'all, I created a variable that Serves as a password, the problem an having is that anytime I type the word, its visible and I don't want it to be visible and seen in my screen anytime its typed. You know when you use the "SU" command and you type in the password its doesn't show on the screen, don't know of there is anything I can also to make my secret word not to show when I type it in. For better understanding, I wrote a script that test for a condition, if the condition is met then its request for a word. So this is what an actually trying to protect. Don't know if this can be achieved. Thanks in anticipation.

I take it you are talking about a bash script, I presume?

Hi,

Do you mean something like this

Its like my post was not explicit enough, cause no one seems to understand. I wrote a script and put in my ~/.bashrc to test for a condition, if that condition is met then its request a word, and of the wrong word is supplied the terminal exits. Its a way of conttolling access to my terminal. What I really want now is to know of there. Is anything that can be done so when o type in the word its does not show on my screen. Like the way "su" password stays invisible on the screen.