apiology/prompt-for-password

Script which securely prompts for a password and outputs it to stdout

Prompt for password

Script which securely prompts for a password and outputs it to stdout

• Free software: MIT license
• Documentation: https://prompt-for-password.readthedocs.io.

Use the pinentry program to capture the password - letting you use use GUI versions to do asynchrous pop-ups for authentication within scripts. See these projects for details:

• https://www.gnupg.org/related_software/pinentry/index.html
• https://github.com/GPGTools/pinentry-mac

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