Add a way to read passwords

Question

Add a way to read passwords

Asmod4n opened this issue 8 years ago · 2 comments

Would be cool if linenoise could disable echoing etc so passwords aren't written to the ternimal.

Answer 1 · 2016-07-15T10:29:28.000Z

Reading passwords securely requires more than that. Usually you want to ensure no one else is reading the input and that you are really connected to a terminal etc.

Answer 2 · 2016-07-15T14:17:08.000Z

The macOS Terminal has a special mode for that.
The bundled read -s (from bash or zsh) displays a "lock" icon. Same goes for getpass from unistd.h.

But when i copy that code the icon doesn't get displayed :/