Glue tool to read a password on tty (not stdin) and print to stdout.
passwordprompt [PROMPT STRING]
In shell scripts, add password=$(prompt-password) to prompt a password with messing with stty(1).
Some apps read passwords from env variables, files or customizable commands (e.g. to run pass), but are incapable of reading passwords interactively themselves.
prompt-password is useful here as an external command that will effectively read the password interactively.
Examples:
- borgmatic (with
encryption_passcommand: password-prompt) - vdirsyncer (with
password.fetch = ["command", "password-prompt"]) mbsync (mbsync is able to prompt a password)