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() // Silent, for *'s use gopass.GetPasswdMasked()
    // Do something with pass
}

Caution: Multi-byte characters not supported!

Documentation

Index

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

Functions

func GetPasswd

func GetPasswd() []byte

GetPasswd returns the password read from the terminal without echoing input. The returned byte array does not include end-of-line characters.

func GetPasswdMasked

func GetPasswdMasked() []byte

GetPasswdMasked returns the password read from the terminal, echoing asterisks. The returned byte array does not include end-of-line characters.