terminal/password Go package

A Go package to read passwords from the current TTY or console, without echo. It opens the tty/console directly, so that it can be used even if stdin and stdout have been redirected.

Some of the code was shamelessly lifted and modified from golang.org/x/crypto/ssh/terminal. However, the code there wasn't sufficient becuase it does not open a fresh handle to the tty/console.

Go Get It

you can use this in your code with a simple:

go get github.com/rwtodd/apputil/password

and a:

import "github.com/rwtodd/apputil/password"

...

// ask them to type it twice for confirmation:
pw, err := password.Read("Password: ", 2)