"""Utilities to get a password and/or the current user name.
getpass(prompt[, stream]) - Prompt for a password, with echo turned off.
getuser() - Get the user name from the environment or password database.
GetPassWarning - This UserWarning is issued when getpass() cannot prevent
echoing of the password contents while reading.
On Windows, the msvcrt module will be used.
On the Mac EasyDialogs.AskPassword is used, if available.
# Authors: Piers Lauder (original)
# Guido van Rossum (Windows support and cleanup)
# Gregory P. Smith (tty support & GetPassWarning)
__all__ = ["getpass","getuser","GetPassWarning"]
class GetPassWarning(UserWarning): pass
def unix_getpass(prompt='Password: ', stream=None):
"""Prompt for a password, with echo turned off.
prompt: Written on stream to ask for the input. Default: 'Password: '
stream: A writable file object to display the prompt. Defaults to
the tty. If no tty is available defaults to sys.stderr.
EOFError: If our input tty or stdin was closed.
GetPassWarning: When we were unable to turn echo off on the input.
Always restores terminal settings before returning.
# Always try reading and writing directly on the tty first.
fd = os.open('/dev/tty', os.O_RDWR|os.O_NOCTTY)
tty = os.fdopen(fd, 'w+', 1)
except EnvironmentError, e:
# If that fails, see if stdin can be controlled.
except (AttributeError, ValueError):
passwd = fallback_getpass(prompt, stream)
old = termios.tcgetattr(fd) # a copy to save
new[3] &= ~termios.ECHO # 3 == 'lflags'
tcsetattr_flags = termios.TCSAFLUSH
if hasattr(termios, 'TCSASOFT'):
tcsetattr_flags |= termios.TCSASOFT
termios.tcsetattr(fd, tcsetattr_flags, new)
passwd = _raw_input(prompt, stream, input=input)
termios.tcsetattr(fd, tcsetattr_flags, old)
stream.flush() # issue7208
# _raw_input succeeded. The final tcsetattr failed. Reraise
# instead of leaving the terminal in an unknown state.
# We can't control the tty or stdin. Give up and use normal IO.
# fallback_getpass() raises an appropriate warning.
del input, tty # clean up unused file objects before blocking
passwd = fallback_getpass(prompt, stream)
def win_getpass(prompt='Password: ', stream=None):
"""Prompt for password with echo off, using Windows getch()."""
if sys.stdin is not sys.__stdin__:
return fallback_getpass(prompt, stream)
if c == '\r' or c == '\n':
def fallback_getpass(prompt='Password: ', stream=None):
warnings.warn("Can not control echo on the terminal.", GetPassWarning,
print >>stream, "Warning: Password input may be echoed."
return _raw_input(prompt, stream)
def _raw_input(prompt="", stream=None, input=None):
# A raw_input() replacement that doesn't save the string in the
# NOTE: The Python C API calls flockfile() (and unlock) during readline.
"""Get the username from the environment or password database.
First try various environment variables, then the password
database. This works on Windows as long as USERNAME is set.
for name in ('LOGNAME', 'USER', 'LNAME', 'USERNAME'):
user = os.environ.get(name)
# If this fails, the exception will "explain" why
return pwd.getpwuid(os.getuid())[0]
# Bind the name getpass to the appropriate function
# it's possible there is an incompatible termios from the
# McMillan Installer, make sure we have a UNIX-compatible termios
termios.tcgetattr, termios.tcsetattr
except (ImportError, AttributeError):
from EasyDialogs import AskPassword
getpass = fallback_getpass