Source: libterm-readpassword-perl Maintainer: Debian Perl Group Uploaders: gregor herrmann Section: perl Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-perl Priority: optional Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13) Build-Depends-Indep: perl Standards-Version: 3.9.7 Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libterm-readpassword-perl Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libterm-readpassword-perl.git Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/Term-ReadPassword Package: libterm-readpassword-perl Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends} Multi-Arch: foreign Description: prompt user for a password Term::ReadPassword lets you ask the user for a password in the traditional way, from the keyboard, without echoing. . The read_password function prompts for input, reads a line of text from the keyboard, then returns that line to the caller. The line of text doesn't include the newline character, so there's no need to use chomp.