Using putback for passwords

[System_Error]

I'm trying to hide the password as the user enters it, but for some reason it's not working. it seems like an infinite loop:

string get_password()
{
   string give_back;
   char temp;
   while(cin.get(temp) != 0)
   {
      //give_back += temp;
      cin.putback('*');
      
   }
   
   return give_back;
}

[CornedBee]

putback() doesn't do what you think. Look it up.

There is no way in standard C++ to achieve what you want. It's only possible using platform-specific API.