kkawakam
Read password
https://github.com/antirez/linenoise/issues/125
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.
I'm looking for this. It doesn't even have to be incredibly secure, just hiding the visible input would be enough for lots of cases.
@madprops You can try something like this:
- Disable auto_add_history so that password does not appear in your history file.
- Define a Highlighter such as
highlightreturns '*' x width(line) because rustyline expects the highlighted line to have the same width as the raw line andhighlight_charreturnstrue. - And force highlighting: color_mode.
Hmm not sure how to do this. It seems to define a highlighter I need to provide a helper, and to do that I need to implement all the helper stuff, not just the highlight? Can't find an easier way. Also in my case I think I don't need to bother about the history bit, since I'm not using history features in my inputs.
@madprops I know, this is just a hack. I will try to provide you a complete example.
Using a * per input character rather than nothing is less secure as it leaks the length of the password.
