getpasswd functionality in Go?

Question

Situation:

I want to get a password entry from the stdin console - without echoing what the user types. Is there something com

Answer 1

I had a similar usecase and the following code snippet works well for me. Feel free to try this if you are still stuck here.

import (
    "fmt"
    "golang.org/x/crypto/ssh/terminal"

)

func main() {
    fmt.Printf("Now, please type in the password (mandatory): ")
    password, _ := terminal.ReadPassword(0)

    fmt.Printf("Password is : %s", password)
}

Of course, you need to install terminal package using go get beforehand.