// password is a package for reading a password securely from a terminal. // The code in this package disables echo in the terminal so that the // password is not echoed back in plaintext to the user. package password import ( "errors" "io" "os" "os/signal" ) var ErrInterrupted = errors.New("interrupted") // Read reads the password from the given os.File. The password // will not be echoed back to the user. Ctrl-C will automatically return // from this function with a blank string and an ErrInterrupted. func Read(f *os.File) (string, error) { ch := make(chan os.Signal, 1) signal.Notify(ch, os.Interrupt) defer signal.Stop(ch) // Run the actual read in a go-routine so that we can still detect signals var result string var resultErr error doneCh := make(chan struct{}) go func() { defer close(doneCh) result, resultErr = read(f) }() // Wait on either the read to finish or the signal to come through select { case <-ch: return "", ErrInterrupted case <-doneCh: return result, resultErr } } func readline(f *os.File) (string, error) { var buf [1]byte resultBuf := make([]byte, 0, 64) for { n, err := f.Read(buf[:]) if err != nil && err != io.EOF { return "", err } if n == 0 || buf[0] == '\n' || buf[0] == '\r' { break } resultBuf = append(resultBuf, buf[0]) } return string(resultBuf), nil }