Source: node-getpass Section: javascript Priority: optional Maintainer: Debian Javascript Maintainers Uploaders: Pirate Praveen Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13) , dh-sequence-nodejs , node-assert-plus Standards-Version: 4.6.0 Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/js-team/node-getpass Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/js-team/node-getpass.git Homepage: https://github.com/arekinath/node-getpass Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-nodejs Rules-Requires-Root: no Package: node-getpass Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends} , node-assert-plus , nodejs:any 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.