Need a Linux tool to capture my own keystrokes ...

[Mike Ballon]

Couple of things that might help.

script - make typescript of terminal session
screen - screen manager with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation

echo/read

echo -n Password
read -s password
echo $password

Or maybe...

stty -echo / stty echo

On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 8:19 AM, <kitepilot at kitepilot.com> wrote:

> Hello Joe, as someone else already mentioned:
> save your password to a text file and "copy'n paste' it from there over
> and over again.
> That invalidates a typo and guarantees that you always use the same
> password.
> Now my concern:
> What I hear is:
> SSH likes me.
> FTP doesn't.
> Is this box publicly running FTP?
> Oh boy...
> I hope not!
> ET
>
> joe at actionline.com writes:
>
>> Is there some kind of Linux tool that I can use to capture
>> my own keystrokes.
>> I am having a problem with ssh login telling me "Permission denied"
>> I use the exact same password to ftp login and it works every time.
>> So I'd like to be able to capture the keystrokes so I can prove that I am
>> not making a typo.
>>
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