Error trying to read both passphrase and input from stdin on Windows
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Environment
- OS: Windows 10 Pro (x86_64) Build 19041.804
- age version: v1.0.0-rc.1
What I was trying to do
Not sure if I have the correct cmdline for this but I was trying to password-encrypt some arbitrary words from stdin using
age -p -o out
What happened
Seems like age is trying to open /dev/tty which does not exist on Windows.
Command line: age -p -o out
Enter passphrase (leave empty to autogenerate a secure one): Error: could not read passphrase: standard input is not available or not a terminal, and opening /dev/tty failed: open /dev/tty: The system cannot find the path specified.
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We need to improve the error message, but the issue here is that age is refusing to use stdin for both the passphrase and the input. We could read one line for the passphrase and then consider the rest the input, but it feels like something that's easy to get wrong.
Ok, so the logic will have to be a bit more complicated to be safe, since we don't want to read both passphrase and input from a pipe, but doing it from a terminal sounds reasonable, and I think we can make the behavior cross-platform.