Ubuntu 10.10 Bash Script Enter Password Protection By Hashing It Out.

Colucix posted a cool script over HERE that hashes out an entered password in a Bash Script. I figured I'll share it with you.

#!/bin/bash

#  Prompt user for username and password

read -p "please enter username and press [enter]: " username

echo -n "please enter password and press [enter]: "

#  Save current terminal settings

oldstty=$(stty -g)

#  Disable canonical mode and local echo

stty -icanon -echo

#  Get the first keystroke using dd

key=$(dd bs=1 count=1 2>/dev/null)

#  While key is not "Enter" store key in the password,

#  echo an asterisk and get another keystroke

while [ x$key != x$(echo) ]

do

  password=$password$key

  echo -n \*

  key=$(dd bs=1 count=1 2>/dev/null)

done

echo

#  Restore old terminal settings

stty "$oldstty"

#  Check results

echo $username

echo $password

Blank out the Password in Python would be.

#!/usr/local/bin/python

import getpass

user = raw_input('Enter your user name ')

passwd = getpass.getpass('enter your password ')

print user

print passwd

raw_input('Press ENTER to exit')