Best practice prompting for password

Fri Sep 7 20:42:40 EDT 2007

In message <mailman.219.1189171663.2658.python-list at python.org>, GiBo wrote:

> what's the best practice to securely prompt user for password on console
> in Python? IIRC some programs like SSH do a lot to ensure that the input
> comes from TTY and is not redirected from somewhere and several other
> checks.

Does it? Why bother?

It's not where the password comes _from_ that you have to be careful about,
it's what you do with it after you get it.