Re: [gentoo-dev] MySQL 4.0 => 4.1 upgrade

[Martin Schlemmer]

On Sat, 2005-09-10 at 20:03 +0200, Francesco R wrote:
> Maurice van der Pot wrote:
>
> >Is this path going to be published somewhere or is this mail it?
> >
> >
> Not from me atm, I feel very bad at writing anglish documentation. An
> eventual reader sure feel worst.
>
> >On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 01:08:06PM +0200, Francesco R wrote:
> >
> >
> >>cmd# ebuild /var/db/pkg/dev-db/mysql-4.1.14/mysql-4.1.14.ebuild config
> >>
> >>
> >This asks for a password, but not all passwords can be entered.
> >Specifically one with a ` in it fails =]
> >
> >Also, when it outputs:
> >    "Check the password"
> >it is asking you to enter the password again. I wasn't sure how to
> >interpret this, because the password was shown on the screen so it might
> >have been asking me to verify it and type ok or something.
> >
> >
> It's a mixture, I've received a suggestion in bugzilla on howto hide the
> password, but need to be tested on all platform before.
>

Just use bash's built-in read function:

-----
local password newpasswd
# Read the password into $password
read -sp "Please enter password: " password
# Just echo a newline so that next output start on new line
echo
# Confirm password into $newpassword
read -sp "Please re-enter password: " newpassword
echo
# Verify that the passwords match
if [[ ${password} != "${newpassword}" ]] ; then
	eerror "Passwords did not match!"
	die "Passwords did not match!"
fi
-----

Or something to that regards.


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Martin Schlemmer