Summary: ALthough AIX is by now on version 7.3 I find these old pages so fascinating I decided to keep them. On this page I'll show you quickly hide passwords from the screen. This page is for AIX 5.3 and AIX 6.1.
Date: Between 2010-2013
Refactor: 21 December 2024: Checked formatting.

If you have a script which requires a password somewhere as input and you don't want to have that password displayed on the screen, this is how you do it:

# Request for the password of the ORACLE_USER
printf "Provide password %s user: " $ORACLE_USER
# Save the current settings of the terminal session
stty_orig=`stty -g`
# Change the terminal session settings so it won't display input anymore
stty -echo
# Read the input from the script operator
read ora_secret
# Set the terminal back to it's old settings
stty $stty_orig