Possible to show *'s when text entered in terminal

[aharpervc]

Hello! When using this library to prompt for a password, eg like rpassword::prompt_password_stdout("Password: "), there's nothing shown on the terminal when text is entered.

Is it possible to have something like ***'s be shown instead? Then it will be more clear to the user they have entered some text.

Thanks!

[conradkleinespel]

Hi @aharpervc, I appreciate your question. It is not currently possible to do that. I'm not inclined to add code to support this because:

• the standard way on Unix to ask for passwords is not to show anything, which you can see when running commands like sudo su or ssh-keygen;
• this would require time to develop and test properly, which at the moment I don't have.

Feel free to fork the repo and implement this if you really need it though! If you do, please share your fork here, maybe at some point we can reconcile both repositories.

[aharpervc]

Okay thanks for the response... I'll think about it