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Disable local echo display with input passwords in linux#33

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@ip7z Can we please get this merged? If any changes are required please point them out and I will try to help out.

Note that recently Arch switched from p7zip (which did not have this issue) to this repo as upstream source, leading to way more affected users.

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@ip7z: What do you think about this PR?

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This is needed on Fedora too - it's still affected as of version 25.01. Please consider merging or provide feedback as to what needs to be improved

Earnestly pushed a commit to Earnestly/7zip that referenced this pull request Feb 7, 2026
This initial work adds the -pfd[N] flag to the 7z command so that an
alternate file descriptor (fd) may be specified for reading the password
instead of standard input (stdin).

By adding this flag it becomes possible for 7z to accept data from stdin
for use with the -si flag while also being being able to decrypt a
password protected achieve without revealing the password on the
command line.

For example, generating a secret key and storing it in an encrypted archive
without the need to expose any of the data to a filesystem:

    age-keygen | 7z -pfd9 9< <(pass show archive) -siid.age a archive.7z

As a side effect the password is not echoed to the terminal, however
this PR should not conflict with the work in ip7z#33.
Earnestly pushed a commit to Earnestly/7zip that referenced this pull request Feb 7, 2026
This initial work adds the -pfd[N] flag to the 7z command so that an
alternate file descriptor (fd) may be specified for reading the password
instead of standard input (stdin).

By adding this flag it becomes possible for 7z to accept data from stdin
for use with the -si flag while also being being able to decrypt a
password protected achieve without revealing the password on the
command line.

For example, generating a secret key and storing it in an encrypted archive
without the need to expose any of the data to a filesystem:

    age-keygen | 7z -pfd9 9< <(pass show archive) -siid.age a archive.7z

As a side effect the password is not echoed to the terminal, however
this PR should not conflict with the work in ip7z#33.
Earnestly pushed a commit to Earnestly/7zip that referenced this pull request Feb 8, 2026
This initial work adds the -pfd[N] flag to the 7z command so that an
alternate file descriptor (fd) may be specified for reading the password
instead of standard input (stdin).

By adding this flag it becomes possible for 7z to accept data from stdin
for use with the -si flag while also being being able to decrypt a
password protected achieve without revealing the password on the
command line.

For example, generating a secret key and storing it in an encrypted archive
without the need to expose any of the data to a filesystem:

    age-keygen | 7z -pfd9 9< <(pass show archive) -siid.age a archive.7z

As a side effect the password is not echoed to the terminal, however
this PR should not conflict with the work in ip7z#33.
Earnestly pushed a commit to Earnestly/7zip that referenced this pull request Feb 15, 2026
This initial work adds the -pfd[N] flag to the 7z command so that an
alternate file descriptor (fd) may be specified for reading the password
instead of standard input (stdin).

By adding this flag it becomes possible for 7z to accept data from stdin
for use with the -si flag while also being being able to decrypt a
password protected achieve without revealing the password on the
command line.

For example, generating a secret key and storing it in an encrypted archive
without the need to expose any of the data to a filesystem:

    age-keygen | 7z a -pfd9 9< <(pass show archive) -siid.age archive.7z

As a side effect the password is not echoed to the terminal, however
this PR should not conflict with the work in ip7z#33.
Earnestly pushed a commit to Earnestly/7zip that referenced this pull request Feb 16, 2026
This initial work adds the -pfd[N] flag to the 7z command so that an
alternate file descriptor (fd) may be specified for reading the password
instead of standard input (stdin).

By adding this flag it becomes possible for 7z to accept data from stdin
for use with the -si flag while also being being able to decrypt a
password protected achieve without revealing the password on the
command line.

For example, generating a secret key and storing it in an encrypted archive
without the need to expose any of the data to a filesystem:

    age-keygen | 7z a -pfd9 9< <(pass show archive) -siid.age archive.7z

As a side effect the password is not echoed to the terminal, however
this PR should not conflict with the work in ip7z#33.
Earnestly pushed a commit to Earnestly/7zip that referenced this pull request Feb 16, 2026
This initial work adds the -pfd[N] flag to the 7z command so that an
alternate file descriptor (fd) may be specified for reading the password
instead of standard input (stdin).

By adding this flag it becomes possible for 7z to accept data from stdin
for use with the -si flag while also being being able to decrypt a
password protected achieve without revealing the password on the
command line.

For example, generating a secret key and storing it in an encrypted archive
without the need to expose any of the data to a filesystem:

    age-keygen | 7z a -pfd9 9< <(pass show archive) -siid.age archive.7z

As a side effect the password is not echoed to the terminal, however
this PR should not conflict with the work in ip7z#33.

Note that the -p flag is necessary if the archive does not exist but
should not be used if it does.
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Linux command line 7z echoes password prompts

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