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@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ This tools searches your password in the leak-database from [haveibeenpwned.com]
# Examples # Examples
## Pass passwords as arguments ## Check multiple password at once as script arguments
Note: This approach will put all entered password in your shell command history (such as the bash history). Therefore this method is only recommended if you trust anybody else who has acces to the history or if you clean all passwords from the history. Note: This approach will put all entered password in your shell command history (such as the bash history). Therefore this method is only recommended if you trust anybody else who has acces to the history or if you clean all passwords from the history.
The following shows that passwords like `password`, `p@ssw0rd` and even `p@$$wOrd` have been leaked already and should obviously never be used as passwords again. Note the use of single ticks `'` for the third and fourth password as the `$`-sign confuses the shell otherwise. The following shows that passwords like `password`, `p@ssw0rd` and even `p@$$wOrd` have been leaked already and should obviously never be used as passwords again. Note the use of single ticks `'` for the third and fourth password as the `$`-sign confuses the shell otherwise.
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``` ```
## Enter password secretly into a prompt ## Check one password at a time via a secure prompt
When you invoke the script without any arguments you will be prompted for a password which you can enter without somebody else seeing the characters on the screen: When you invoke the script without any arguments you will be prompted for a password which you can enter without somebody else seeing the characters on the screen:
``` ```
./have_I_b33n_pwned.py ./have_I_b33n_pwned.py