gopass

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getpasswd in Go

Retrieve password from user terminal input without echo

Verified on BSD, Linux, and Windows.

Example:

package main

import "fmt"
import "github.com/howeyc/gopass"

func main() {
	fmt.Printf("Password: ")
	pass := gopass.GetPasswd()
    // Do something with pass
}

Caution: Multi-byte characters not supported!

Documentation

Overview

Reads password from terminal.

Index

• func GetPasswd() []byte
• func GetPasswdMasked() []byte

Functions

func GetPasswd

func GetPasswd() []byte

Returns password byte array read from terminal without input being echoed. Array of bytes does not include end-of-line characters.

func GetPasswdMasked

func GetPasswdMasked() []byte

Masking password functionality Removed character restrictions