# getpasswd in Go [](https://godoc.org/github.com/howeyc/gopass) [](http://travis-ci.org/howeyc/gopass) Retrieve password from user terminal or piped input without echo. Verified on BSD, Linux, and Windows. Example: ```go package main import "fmt" import "github.com/howeyc/gopass" func main() { fmt.Printf("Password: ") // Silent. For printing *'s use gopass.GetPasswdMasked() pass, err := gopass.GetPasswd() if err != nil { // Handle gopass.ErrInterrupted or getch() read error } // Do something with pass } ``` Caution: Multi-byte characters not supported!