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readpass
A tiny library for reading passwords without displaying them on the terminal.
It's similar to the C function getpass()
or Python's getpass
module.
Usage
Read a password without displaying it on the terminal:
let passwd = readpass::from_tty()?;
If you want to display a prompt, print it to stdout or stderr before reading:
use std::io::{self, Write};
write!(io::stderr(), "Please enter a password: ")?;
let passwd = readpass::from_tty()?;
Strings returned by readpass
are wrapped in Zeroizing
to ensure the password is zeroized from memory after it's Drop
ped.
Docs: https://docs.rs/readpass.
License
The source code is released under the Apache 2.0 license.
This is a fork of rpassword by Conrad Kleinespel.
The original library appears unmaintained, and rolls its own version of zeroize
in rtoolbox.
This crate aims to change that.
Dependencies
~0–8MB
~54K SLoC