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David wrote:
> How would I go about changing the text the user enters when being
> prompted for the password (changing text to passchar's like
> asterisks), but still be read what the user is actually typing.. would
> it be working along with buffers or is there an simplier method?
> 
> TIA

Try something like this (needs to be modified in order to be a bit more 
flexible):

with Ada.Text_IO; use Ada.Text_IO;

procedure Password is
    A : Character;
    S : String(1..10);
begin
    for I in 1 .. 10 loop
       Get_Immediate (A);
       S(I) := A;
       Put ("*");
    end loop;
    New_Line;
    Put_Line (S);
end Password;


Rodrigo