README.md

@@ -116,7 +116,11 @@ order; the first one found wins:
 2. Environment variable `KEYFUNC_MNEMONIC_COMMAND`: the same, as a shell command
    held in the environment.
 3. Environment variable `KEYFUNC_MNEMONIC`: the mnemonic itself.
-4. A prompt on the terminal with echo turned off.
+4. A prompt on the terminal with echo turned off. The mnemonic is what is typed
+   up to Enter, and echo is turned back on once it is read. Ctrl-D with nothing
+   typed ends the prompt at once and leaves the mnemonic empty, so the tool
+   refuses it and exits with status 1. After text has been typed, Ctrl-D has to
+   be pressed twice to end the prompt, and the text typed is the mnemonic.
 
 If none of these is available and standard input is not a terminal, the tool
 refuses and exits with status 1. A mnemonic that is empty, does not have 12, 15,

go.mod

@@ -6,9 +6,11 @@ require (
 	filippo.io/age v1.3.2
 	github.com/btcsuite/btcd v0.25.0
 	github.com/btcsuite/btcd/btcutil v1.2.0
+	github.com/creack/pty v1.1.25-0.20260601142114-9246436fffe8 // v1.1.24's Open can return another pty's terminal
 	github.com/spf13/cobra v1.10.2
 	github.com/stretchr/testify v1.12.1
 	golang.org/x/crypto v0.57.0
+	golang.org/x/sys v0.48.0
 	golang.org/x/term v0.46.0
 	sneak.berlin/go/secret v0.0.0-20261007105610-ef0ae90768c8
 )
@@ -22,5 +24,4 @@ require (
 	github.com/kcalvinalvin/anet v0.0.0-20251112173137-d8ddc1f6dbee // indirect
 	github.com/spf13/pflag v1.0.9 // indirect
 	go.yaml.in/yaml/v3 v3.0.5 // indirect
-	golang.org/x/sys v0.48.0 // indirect
 )

go.sum

@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ github.com/btcsuite/btcd/btcutil v1.2.0/go.mod h1:/Taflm113pYjUpbWKKQEfa6XOtI/+W
 github.com/btcsuite/btcd/chaincfg/chainhash v1.2.0 h1:yMIg99+4aBvqfl/HzJRKfxTX9rGfikoI9uvFzterhc8=
 github.com/btcsuite/btcd/chaincfg/chainhash v1.2.0/go.mod h1:Y72Ren9gfhlEvnwnT78BGcSNO2UMphTKLn9AorF+5rg=
 github.com/cpuguy83/go-md2man/v2 v2.0.6/go.mod h1:oOW0eioCTA6cOiMLiUPZOpcVxMig6NIQQ7OS05n1F4g=
+github.com/creack/pty v1.1.25-0.20260601142114-9246436fffe8 h1:CY3gjC7naqYGLMiywvj3suPfa1i0p/QEr7o8ujxL/2M=
+github.com/creack/pty v1.1.25-0.20260601142114-9246436fffe8/go.mod h1:08sCNb52WyoAwi2QDyzUCTgcvVFhUzewun7wtTfvcwE=
 github.com/davecgh/go-spew v1.1.1 h1:vj9j/u1bqnvCEfJOwUhtlOARqs3+rkHYY13jYWTU97c=
 github.com/davecgh/go-spew v1.1.1/go.mod h1:J7Y8YcW2NihsgmVo/mv3lAwl/skON4iLHjSsI+c5H38=
 github.com/decred/dcrd/dcrec/secp256k1/v4 v4.4.0 h1:NMZiJj8QnKe1LgsbDayM4UoHwbvwDRwnI3hwNaAHRnc=

internal/cli/prompt_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,83 @@
+package cli_test
+
+import (
+	"bufio"
+	"io"
+	"os"
+	"os/exec"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/creack/pty"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+	"golang.org/x/term"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/keyfunc/internal/mnemonic"
+)
+
+// TestEndOfInputAtThePromptEndsTheTool runs "age pub" with no mnemonic
+// given and a terminal on all three streams, waits for the prompt, and
+// types Ctrl-D. The tool has to end with status 1, say that the
+// mnemonic is empty, and leave the terminal set as it found it, so with
+// echo on again.
+//
+// pty.Open returns the two ends of a new terminal: tty is the end the
+// tool uses as its terminal, and ptmx the end the test reads what the
+// terminal shows from and types into. Reading ptmx stops at the
+// deadline, so a prompt that never comes fails the test instead of
+// hanging it.
+func TestEndOfInputAtThePromptEndsTheTool(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Setenv(mnemonic.Variable, "")
+	t.Setenv(mnemonic.CommandVariable, "")
+
+	ptmx, tty, err := pty.Open()
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	defer func() { _ = ptmx.Close() }()
+	defer func() { _ = tty.Close() }()
+
+	require.NoError(t, ptmx.SetReadDeadline(time.Now().Add(10*time.Second)))
+
+	before, err := term.GetState(int(tty.Fd()))
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	//nolint:gosec // this test's own binary as the tool
+	command := exec.CommandContext(t.Context(), os.Args[0], "age", "pub")
+
+	command.Env = append(os.Environ(), runAsTool+"=1")
+	command.Stdin = tty
+	command.Stdout = tty
+	command.Stderr = tty
+
+	require.NoError(t, command.Start())
+
+	var (
+		shown string
+		char  byte
+	)
+
+	terminal := bufio.NewReader(ptmx)
+	for !strings.HasSuffix(shown, "mnemonic: ") {
+		char, err = terminal.ReadByte()
+		require.NoError(t, err, "the tool did not prompt: %q", shown)
+
+		shown += string(char)
+	}
+
+	_, err = ptmx.WriteString("\x04") // Ctrl-D
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	waitForTool(t, "Ctrl-D at the prompt", command)
+	require.Equal(t, failedStatus, command.ProcessState.ExitCode())
+
+	after, err := term.GetState(int(tty.Fd()))
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	require.Equal(t, before, after, "the terminal settings were not restored")
+
+	// With the tool ended and this end closed too, ptmx gives what is
+	// left on the terminal and then an error.
+	require.NoError(t, tty.Close())
+
+	said, _ := io.ReadAll(terminal)
+	require.Contains(t, string(said), mnemonic.ErrEmpty.Error())
+}

internal/mnemonic/mnemonic.go

@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ func ask() (string, error) {
 
 	fmt.Fprint(os.Stderr, "mnemonic: ")
 
-	typed, err := term.ReadPassword(fd)
+	typed, err := readWithoutEcho()
 
 	fmt.Fprintln(os.Stderr)
 
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ func ask() (string, error) {
 		return "", fmt.Errorf("reading the mnemonic: %w", err)
 	}
 
-	return checked(string(typed))
+	return checked(typed)
 }
 
 // checked joins the words with single spaces, whatever whitespace

internal/mnemonic/prompt_notunix.go

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+//go:build !aix && !darwin && !dragonfly && !freebsd && !linux && !netbsd && !openbsd && !solaris && !zos
+
+package mnemonic
+
+import (
+	"os"
+
+	"golang.org/x/term"
+)
+
+// readWithoutEcho reads one line from the terminal on standard input
+// with echo turned off, through term.ReadPassword, on the systems
+// prompt_unix.go is not built for, such as Windows.
+func readWithoutEcho() (string, error) {
+	typed, err := term.ReadPassword(int(os.Stdin.Fd()))
+
+	return string(typed), err
+}

internal/mnemonic/prompt_unix.go

@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+//go:build aix || darwin || dragonfly || freebsd || linux || netbsd || openbsd || solaris || zos
+
+package mnemonic
+
+import (
+	"bufio"
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
+	"io"
+	"os"
+
+	"golang.org/x/sys/unix"
+)
+
+// readWithoutEcho reads one line from the terminal on standard input
+// with echo turned off. The line ends at a newline or at the end of
+// input (Ctrl-D). The terminal is set as term.ReadPassword sets it;
+// ReadPassword itself is not used here because it never sees the end
+// of input and goes on waiting.
+func readWithoutEcho() (string, error) {
+	fd := int(os.Stdin.Fd())
+
+	settings, err := unix.IoctlGetTermios(fd, ioctlReadTermios)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", fmt.Errorf("reading the terminal settings: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	hidden := *settings
+	hidden.Lflag &^= unix.ECHO
+	hidden.Lflag |= unix.ICANON | unix.ISIG
+	hidden.Iflag |= unix.ICRNL
+
+	err = unix.IoctlSetTermios(fd, ioctlWriteTermios, &hidden)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", fmt.Errorf("turning echo off: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	defer func() { _ = unix.IoctlSetTermios(fd, ioctlWriteTermios, settings) }()
+
+	// With ICANON set, a read from the terminal returns at most one
+	// line, so the buffer takes nothing past the newline.
+	typed, err := bufio.NewReader(os.Stdin).ReadString('\n')
+	if errors.Is(err, io.EOF) {
+		return typed, nil
+	}
+
+	return typed, err
+}

internal/mnemonic/termios_bsd.go

@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+//go:build darwin || dragonfly || freebsd || netbsd || openbsd
+
+package mnemonic
+
+import "golang.org/x/sys/unix"
+
+// The requests that read and set the terminal settings, as
+// golang.org/x/term names them.
+const (
+	ioctlReadTermios  = unix.TIOCGETA
+	ioctlWriteTermios = unix.TIOCSETA
+)

internal/mnemonic/termios_other.go

@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+//go:build aix || linux || solaris || zos
+
+package mnemonic
+
+import "golang.org/x/sys/unix"
+
+// The requests that read and set the terminal settings, as
+// golang.org/x/term names them.
+const (
+	ioctlReadTermios  = unix.TCGETS
+	ioctlWriteTermios = unix.TCSETS
+)