Thread: can the word enter in dos be masked?

i would like to enter password in the program, can i mask the password i entered with "*"s??

thanks for giving help~

Code:

cout << " Please Enter the FTP login id\n";
cin.getline(login,10);
cout << " Please Enter the Password \n";
cin.getline(password,20);

can the password i entered be masked??

you can do sometin like this.. but the function i am using is not standard and will not work on all platforms and compilers....

Code:

# include <iostream.h>
# include <conio.h>


int main()
{

char username[20];
char password[20];
clrscr();
cout<<"Username > ";
cin>>username;
char ch;
int num=0;
do{
ch=getch();
password[num]=ch;
cout<<"*";

num++;
}
while(ch!=13);



return 0;
}