On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 01:55:16PM -0800, Chris Brannon wrote: > Kevin Carhart <[email protected]> writes: > > > I know that at the time I type i2=password, > > or something, edbrowse > > has no way of knowing what I want to do next > > Yeah, generally that is true. However, I've seen programs be pretty > smart about this. For example, the IRC client weechat will > start printing masking characters as soon as you type the string > /msg nickserv identify > For those not familiar with IRC, this is often how you authenticate your > account, > by sending a private message to a bot named nickserv. > We could do that kind of cleverness in edbrowse, > but I like your "invisible mode" idea.
Doing that would require a change in how edbrowse handles terminal input. Specifically we currently wait for a line to be entered before we process it, but in order for such fancy things as i2= to cause imediate password masking we'd need to process each keystroke. What I generally do (on linux) is use: !stty -echo To enter the password then (quickly): !clear To remove the printed line. I suspect displayLine could be altered in some way to avoid the screen printing, but I'm not so sure about the non-echoing. I think that, rather than an invisible mode, I'd prefer something like a pw command which'd take a field number and then display a non-echoing prompt, i.e.: pw2 Password for field 2: <password goes here> And then have the field print as ... (i.e. for my gmail account this would read): <[email protected]> <...> The reason for the fixed ... is that it means you can't guess password length (probably rather paranoid). If the field was blank then it would print as a blank field. If someone used i2 rather than the pw command then the field would still print as ... but obviously the i2 line would remain both visible and in the readline history (in readline mode). Any thoughts? Cheers, Adam.
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