sealtielfreak / getpass.c

Utility library to ask the user for passwords from the terminal for C/C++, works on any platform

getpass.c

How to use it?

It is just a function that returns a string of characters without showing it on the screen

Example

#include <stdio.h>
#include "getpass.h"

#define LEN     16

int main() {
    printf("password: ");
    const char* pass = getpass('*', LEN);

    if(pass) {
        printf("\nYour password: %s", pass);
    } else {
        printf("Please enter a password");
    }

    return 0;
}

References

const char* getpass(char e, size_t size);

Arguments

e for the character that you want to be printed on the screen, if you want it to be invisible use the macro GHOST_PASS

size it establishes the limit size of the user's input, if the established input is exceeded, it ends

License

WTFPL