[Python-ideas] Password masking for getpass.getpass

[Chris Angelico]

On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 8:50 PM, Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:
> This might not apply for people working from home, but at work I regularly
> enter my own password or passwords for other systems with other people
> intentionally looking over my shoulder (e.g. pair-programming, debugging,
> confirming error reports etc.)  Should I ask them to look away from the
> screen each time?

Yes - and ask them to block their ears, too. The sound of your
keyboard can give away information about what your password is.

ChrisA