NAME¶

getpwd - simple tool that queries a password from a user and writes it to standard output

SYNOPSIS¶

getpwd ["prompt"] | sphinx get username hostname
    

DESCRIPTION¶

This is a simple script which uses pinentry from the gnupg project to query a password and write it out to standard output. Which pinentry variant you use, is up to you, it can be a curses, gtk or qt interface. This should be safer than echoing a password into pwdsphinx, since your password will not show up in your process list nor your command line history.

The only parameter this tool takes is a prompt to display when asking for the password.

REPORTING BUGS¶

https://github.com/stef/pwdsphinx/issues/

AUTHOR¶

Written by Stefan Marsiske.

COPYRIGHT¶

Copyright © 2023 Stefan Marsiske. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

SEE ALSO¶

sphinx(1)