echo: A cross-platform, cross-console way to handle echoing terminal input
The base library exposes the hGetEcho and hSetEcho functions
for querying and setting echo status, but unfortunately, neither
function works with MinTTY consoles on Windows. This is a serious
issue, since hGetEcho and hSetEcho are often used to disable
input echoing when a program prompts for a password, so many
programs will reveal your password as you type it on MinTTY!
This library provides an alternative interface which works
with both MinTTY and other consoles. An example is included
which demonstrates how one might prompt for a password using
this library. To build it, make sure to configure with the
-fexample flag.
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| Versions [RSS] | 0.1, 0.1.1, 0.1.2, 0.1.3, 0.1.4 |
|---|---|
| Change log | CHANGELOG.md |
| Dependencies | base (>=4.3 && <5), echo, mintty (>=0.1 && <0.2), process (>=1.0.1.1 && <1.7), Win32 (>=2 && <3) [details] |
| License | BSD-3-Clause |
| Copyright | (C) 2016-2017 Ryan Scott |
| Author | Ryan Scott |
| Maintainer | Ryan Scott <ryan.gl.scott@gmail.com> |
| Category | System |
| Home page | https://github.com/RyanGlScott/echo |
| Bug tracker | https://github.com/RyanGlScott/echo/issues |
| Source repo | head: git clone https://github.com/RyanGlScott/echo |
| Uploaded | by ryanglscott at 2021-02-18T01:24:53Z |
| Distributions | Arch:0.1.4, Debian:0.1.3, Fedora:0.1.4, LTSHaskell:0.1.4, NixOS:0.1.4, Stackage:0.1.4, openSUSE:0.1.4 |
| Reverse Dependencies | 3 direct, 4 indirect [details] |
| Executables | password |
| Downloads | 35972 total (206 in the last 30 days) |
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| Status | Docs available [build log] Last success reported on 2021-02-18 [all 1 reports] |
Readme for echo-0.1.4
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The base library exposes the hGetEcho and hSetEcho functions for querying and setting echo status, but unfortunately, neither function works with MinTTY consoles on Windows. This is a serious issue, since hGetEcho and hSetEcho are often used to disable input echoing when a program prompts for a password, so many programs will reveal your password as you type it on MinTTY!
This library provides an alternative interface which works with both MinTTY and other consoles. An example is included which demonstrates how one might prompt for a password using this library. To build it, make sure to configure with the -fexample flag.