echo: A cross-platform, cross-console way to handle echoing terminal input

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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.


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Versions [RSS] 0.1, 0.1.1, 0.1.2, 0.1.3, 0.1.4
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Dependencies base (>=4.3 && <5), echo, mintty (>=0.1 && <0.2), process (>=1.0.1.1 && <1.7), Win32 (>=2 && <3) [details]
Tested with ghc ==7.0.4, ghc ==7.2.2, ghc ==7.4.2, ghc ==7.6.3, ghc ==7.8.4, ghc ==7.10.3, ghc ==8.0.2, ghc ==8.2.2, ghc ==8.4.4, ghc ==8.6.5, ghc ==8.8.4, ghc ==8.10.2
License BSD-3-Clause
Copyright (C) 2016-2017 Ryan Scott
Author Ryan Scott
Maintainer Ryan Scott <ryan.gl.scott@gmail.com>
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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, 5 indirect [details]
Executables password
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echo

Hackage Hackage Dependencies Haskell Programming Language BSD3 License Linux build Windows build

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.