getpass

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Getpass for GO.

Leverages the good work from the people over at OpenSSL.org via cgo to provide a simple, and cross platform getpass implementation. The API provided essentially wraps the UI_UTIL_read_pw_string function call in <openssl/ui.h>.

// Prompt the user for their password. func GetPass()(pw string, e os.Error)

// Prompt the user for their password, and get them to confirm it. func GetPassConfirm()(pw string, e os.Error)

// Full customization of the call. Arugments essentially map to UI_UTIL_read_pw_string func GetPassWithOptions(prompt string, confirm, max int)(pw string, e os.Error)

Example Usage:

package main

import ( "os" "fmt" "github.com/gcmurphy/getpass" )

func main(){ fmt.Println("Use default prompt:") pw,e := getpass.GetPass() if e != nil { fmt.Println("ERROR: ", e.Error()) os.Exit(1) } fmt.Println("Password = ", pw) }

Install:

• Requires: OpenSSL
• go get
• go build