Source: node-getpass Section: web Priority: optional Maintainer: Debian Javascript Maintainers Uploaders: Pirate Praveen Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9) , dh-buildinfo , nodejs , node-json5 , npm Standards-Version: 3.9.8 Homepage: https://github.com/arekinath/node-getpass#readme Vcs-Git: https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-javascript/node-getpass.git Vcs-Browser: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-javascript/node-getpass.git Package: node-getpass Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends} , nodejs , node-assert-plus (>= 1.0.0) Description: get a password from terminal This library can be used to get a password from the terminal. Even though it sounds simple and sounds like the `readline` module should be able to do it. But readline module does not support it. . If available, this uses `/dev/tty` to avoid interfering with any data being piped in or out of stdio. This function prints a prompt (by default `Password:`) and then accepts input without echoing. . Node.js is an event-based server-side JavaScript engine.