hidden: true does not hide

[j6s]

When using hidden: true on my system, it does not actually hide the input.

Code:

prompt.start();

prompt.get([{name: "password", required: true, hidden: true}], function(err,result) {
    var password = result.password;
    ...

Output:

As you can see, the password is visible. For the type of application i am building, this is not optimal, since it is a password.

Information on the system:

➜  uname -a
Linux jo-desktop 3.16-trunk-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16-1~exp1 (2014-08-09) x86_64 GNU/Linux
➜   node -v
v0.10.31
➜ echo $SHELL
/usr/bin/zsh

(also tested on bash)

edit:

• Using prompt v0.2.13 intalled via npm
• When using hidden: false / no hidden setting the characters are displayed twice. In both cases the value received is perfectly fine, however displayed once, if it should not be displayed and displayed twice, when it should be displayed once. prompt: user: uusseerr

[bradleat]

I have the same issue in powershell and cmd.

[colesimmons]

I have the same issue when I run with nodemon

[gangstead]

This doesn't happen in my environment (mac version 0.2.14) Is this still an issue?

[j6s]

Still happening on my system. Using linux it happens with the shells

• bash
• zsh

in the emulators

• gnome-terminal
• guake

I will have to ask someone to check on a mac

[gangstead]

Can you do a pull and try the updated password example?
https://github.com/flatiron/prompt/blob/master/examples/password.js

I just merged a PR for masking the password and added it to the example. Nothing's changed that would fix the root cause, but if the masking is working it might be a suitable work around.

[gangstead]

It hasn't been published to npm yet so you'll have to clone the repo to test.

[ddumont]

I'm seeing this on windows 10. Trying to work around another bug where I have a list of things to prompt for but it's tripping up over the password one (maybe because of the hidden: true?).

pget(['username', { name: 'password', hidden: true}, 'cid', 'locale'])
.then(({username, password, cid, locale}) => {

I hardcoded to

pget([{ name: 'password', hidden: true}])
.then(({password}) => {

and it showed password in plaintext as I typed it.

Node: v5.9.0

  "dependencies": {
    "bluebird": "^3.3.4",
    "node-fetch": "^1.4.1",
    "prompt": "^1.0.0"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "babel-cli": "^6.6.5",
    "babel-preset-es2015": "^6.6.0",
    "babel-register": "^6.7.2"
  }

[ddumont]

To follow up, yes. If I remove hidden from password, I don't get weird skipping behavior.
I thought #132 was my problem... maybe they are related. When I do simply:

pget(['username', 'password', 'cid', 'locale'])
.then(({username, password, cid, locale}) => {

Things seem to work better

[pswai]

I am also experiencing this issue on Windows 10 (Mingw64, cmd, powershell). I think this has to do with this issue of the read package

[soichih]

+1 for Window 10 + git-bash.exe

[alancwoo]

I was going completely insane trying to comprehend why this was happening as well when the example ran perfectly, the issue for me as with @colesimmons was that it doesn't work with nodemon