RE: Text entry to command line program

["Ross Boulet" <ross at rossb dot com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com 
> [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Ross Boulet
> Sent: Monday, February 02, 2004 8:05 AM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Text entry to command line program
> 
> 
> I've been having a problem for a while now on my XP laptop 
> with an Oracle
> program (sqlplus).  When I start sqlplus, it prompts for a 
> user id and then
> a password.  When I run it from the windows shell (cmd.exe) 
> it works as
> expected, i.e. the user id is echoed and the password is not:
> 
> c:\$temp>sqlplus
> 
> SQL*Plus: Release 9.2.0.1.0 - Production on Mon Feb 2 07:24:24 2004
> 
> Copyright (c) 1982, 2002, Oracle Corporation.  All rights reserved.
> 
> Enter user-name: myid
> Enter password:
> 
> 
> In bash or ksh, the password gets echoed as well (and shouldn't be):
> 
> 
> lap /home/rossboulet # sqlplus
> 
> SQL*Plus: Release 9.2.0.1.0 - Production on Mon Feb 2 07:22:35 2004
> 
> Copyright (c) 1982, 2002, Oracle Corporation.  All rights reserved.
> 
> Enter user-name: myid
> Enter password: mypass
> 
> 
> Its been happening to me for the last several releases of 
> cygwin but I can't
> say exactly when it started happening.  Any suggestions?
> 

OK, my bad.  I found a couple of references to this behavior in the ML.  I
was suspicious of the "CYGWIN=ntsec tty" environment variable (set for sshd)
and had tried unsetting it in the shell to no avail.  I found that if I
unset it with dos before I start the shell, the behavior reverts to what I
expected (password not echoed).

What am I losing in the shell with not having CYGWIN set?



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