Implementing command to change password

[sharvari1998]

I'm developing a CLI which will replace bash as the user's shell on Linux. For this I need to read the password from the user and confirmation of the password, without displaying it on the terminal. I need to either directly execute the passwd command and let it take these inputs, or I need to read these from my CLI and pass it on to the passwd command.

I tried using std::getline, std::cin.getline and also executing passwd command using system() and popen() but in all instances it is not able to read all the characters entered by the user.

Is there a way to achieve this using this CLI framework? Any suggestions or workarounds?

[daniele77]

I guess discussion #204 should answer your question.

[sharvari1998]

Hello , Thank you for your response,
Yes, I did go through that and I was using CliLocalTerminalSession , but was having issue with executing passwd module command using system command , I assume any command which takes input will have this issue?

[daniele77]

I've just committed a fix that should enable user keyboard handling on Linux platform as well (commit 17dafd8).
It's the issue #239.
Please, see if this solves your problem.

[sharvari1998]

Hello ,
Yes this resolved our issue, Thank you for the help and great CLI framework!

[daniele77]

Very glad this solved your use case.
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