How to prompt and hide characters while using read command [duplicate]

I am creating a script that is used for creating an user account. I want to hide the characters of the password while the user is prompted to enter the password

I tried to use read -ps but I get

./account.sh: line 26: read: `Password: ': not a valid identifier 

Here is my code

#!/bin/bash # Check if user is Root if [[ ${UID} -ne '0' ]] then echo 'You are not autharized for this process' exit fi # Ask for full name read -p 'Full Name: ' full_name # Set the input data to "full_name" variable # Ask for user name read -p 'User Name: ' user_name # Set the input data to "user_name" variable # Check for user name length username_length=${#user_name} if [[ ${username_length} -lt 3 ]] then echo 'User name should be at least 3 characters' exit fi # Ask for password read -ps 'Password: ' password # Set the input data to "password" variable # Check for password length password_length=${#password} if [[ ${password_length} -lt 8 ]] then echo 'Password should be at least 8 characters' exit fi # Create the user useradd -c "${comment}" -m ${user_name} # Set the password for the user echo -e "$password\n$password" | passwd "$user_name" # Change password on first login passwd -e ${user_name}