masked-pass

Simple command-line application that selects specific password characters without displaying full password on the screen. Meant to help with masked passwords on login pages.

Installation

You can either install it from RubyGems or build it manually. You need to have Ruby installed anyway.

RubyGems

gem install masked-pass

Build it on our own

Download this repository and execute following commands inside:

gem build masked-pass.gemspec
gem install masked-pass-1.2.0.gem

Usage

masked-pass [options]

Options:
    -v, --version       Show version and exit
    -h, --help          Show help message and exit
    -c, --clipboard     Use clipboard for input and output (MacOS only)

Changelog

1.2.0

• Add clipboard mode (-c).

1.1.0

• Wiping password characters out after 10 seconds.

1.0.0

• Initial version of the script.