Password prompt should be printed to stderr

Question

Password prompt should be printed to stderr

ntuckerxx opened this issue 4 years ago · comments

Would be nice if the master password prompt went to stderr so the output can be piped to a clipboard-grabber, e.g. on a Mac:

gokey -s myseed -r some/password | pbcopy

... resulting in the password being placed in the clipboard, rather than making the user select and copy it manually. In addition to being less manual, it also means the password doesn't actually ever need to be seen.

Note that this requires the newline after the password to not go to stdout either.

ntuckerxx commented 4 years ago

#32

ntuckerxx · Answer 1 · Sun Aug 30 2020 08:09:30 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Note that I've made such a change in my fork: https://github.com/ntuckerxx/gokey

Ignat Korchagin · Answer 2 · Mon Aug 31 2020 02:48:18 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Great idea. Can you send a PR?

ntuckerxx · Answer 3 · Mon Aug 31 2020 03:39:38 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Note: I don't have permissions to manually link the PR to the issue, and editing the PR title didn't do it.

Ignat Korchagin · Answer 4 · Mon Aug 31 2020 05:11:47 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

To link the issues you may just mention the issue # in the comment. Thanks for the contribution. Resolved by #32