macOS Xcode C++ help! Replacing input with *'s(password protecting)

[unknown.exe]

Sup, I'm trying to make it so that when someone inputs a password into my program, the input is replaced with asterisks as they type, like most computers do. Does anyone know how I can accomplish this? Here is the code that asks for and compares the password:
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int main()
{
{
int password;
int numtries = 0;
{
cout << "PLEASE TYPE IN THE PASSWORD...\nPASSWORD: ";
password:
cin >> password;
cerr << "LOGGING IN";
sleep(1);
cerr << ".";
sleep(1);
cerr << ".";
sleep(1);
cerr << ".\n";
sleep(1);
if (password == 2090407)
{
cout << "PASSWORD VERIFIED...\n";
goto verystart;
}
else
{
numtries = numtries + 1;
if (numtries == 5)
{
cout << "PASSWORD DENIED...\nSYSTEM LOGGING OUT...\n";
return 0;
}
}
cout << "PASSWORD DENIED, PLEASE TRY AGAIN...\n";
goto password;
}
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I'd appreciate any help. Thanks.

 

[mduser63]

Don't use goto statements. Other than that I have no advice (too lazy to think at all right now).

 

[Luis]

if (password == 2090407)

Be sure to change the password before you release the app

 

[yeroen]

just look at the source for /usr/bin/login and see what it does

 

[yeroen]

this is what you want: the function readpassphrase from <readpassphrase.h>

just do a man on readpassphrase for more info

 

[unknown.exe]

Uuuummmm, the readpassphrase sounds promising, but can anyone give me a real example of how to do wut i'm tryin 2 do?

 

[unknown.exe]

Really it seems a simple matter of telling the compiler to replace all input w/ a character... but how do you do that?

 

[kainjow]

Uuuummmm, the readpassphrase sounds promising, but can anyone give me a real example of how to do wut i'm tryin 2 do?

#include <stdio.h>
#include <readpassphrase.h>

int main()
{
	const int passwordLength = 20;
	char password[passwordLength];
	readpassphrase("Enter the password: ", password, passwordLength, 0);
	printf("You entered: %s\n", password);
	
	return 0;
}

 

[unknown.exe]

#include <stdio.h>
#include <readpassphrase.h>

int main()
{
	const int passwordLength = 20;
	char password[passwordLength];
	readpassphrase("Enter the password: ", password, passwordLength, 0);
	printf("You entered: %s\n", password);
	
	return 0;
}

I tried you code and all it tells you is what you typed in. I'm trying to find out a way to replace the characters you type in with asterisks! Can anyone help w/ that problem?

 

[kainjow]

ok ill give this code a try (PS: You forgot iostream)

I wrote it in C, not C++

 

[unknown.exe]

I wrote it in C, not C++

Well it still worked w/ C++............... BUT FOR THE LOVE OF GOD CAN ANYONE ANSWER MY QUESTION!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! EVERYONE HAS BEEN BEATING AROUND THE BUSH FOR HALF THE POSTS!!!

 

[yeroen]

What's with the hysterics?

Do your own ****ting homework.

You're lucky anyone answered you in the first place.

 

[unknown.exe]

What's with the hysterics?

Do your own homework.

*sigh*................................................ can anyone give me a straight answer because i've been looking all over the net and in text-books and I can't find an answer...... just please give me something?

 

[xUKHCx]

Well it still worked w/ C++............... BUT FOR THE LOVE OF GOD CAN ANYONE ANSWER MY QUESTION!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! EVERYONE HAS BEEN BEATING AROUND THE BUSH FOR HALF THE POSTS!!!

If you want people to answer your question don't edit your post after someone has responded because they may not see it, and it sort of makes them look foolish and don't demand an answer.

 

[unknown.exe]

I didnt realise someone had responded until it wus too late... but does anyone have any help 4 me?

 

[yeroen]

http://www.steve.org.uk/Reference/Unix/faq_4.html