How do I turn off echo in a terminal?

Question

I'm writing a Bourne shell script and have a password input like this:

echo -n 'Password: '
read password

Obviously, I don't want the password being echoed to the terminal, so I want to turn off echo for the duration of the read. I know there's way to do this with stty, but I'll ask the question for the benefit of the community whilst I go read the manpage. ;)

Answer 1

stty_orig=`stty -g`
stty -echo
echo 'hidden section'
stty $stty_orig

Answer 2

read -s password works on my linux box.

Answer 3

You can use '-s' option of read command to hide user input.

echo -n "Password:"
read -s password
if [ $password != "..." ]
then
        exit 1; # exit as password mismatched #
fi

Also you can use 'stty -echo' if you want to hide from terminal to print. And restore the terminal settings using "stty echo"

But I think for getting password input from user 'read -s password' is more than enough.