diff --git a/src/os/inc/osWindows.h b/src/os/inc/osWindows.h
index ee17d2ddc39c6a13c5d6f2bae5315c47b8e8b022..d4f3d6d2afd94bcfd2527af9927bf188ba4bf0de 100644
--- a/src/os/inc/osWindows.h
+++ b/src/os/inc/osWindows.h
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@
 #include <Winsock2.h>
 #include <time.h>
 #include <inttypes.h>
+#include <conio.h>
 #include "msvcProcess.h"
 #include "msvcDirect.h"
 #include "msvcFcntl.h"
diff --git a/src/os/src/windows/wString.c b/src/os/src/windows/wString.c
index 0d9a28e288d9ea5885769b4fa3537dd9ba689f6e..1fb235a00575529be660cea18c1401f1d075a49b 100644
--- a/src/os/src/windows/wString.c
+++ b/src/os/src/windows/wString.c
@@ -58,11 +58,20 @@ char *strsep(char **stringp, const char *delim) {
 
 char *getpass(const char *prefix) {
   static char passwd[TSDB_KEY_LEN] = {0};
-
+  memset(passwd, 0, TSDB_KEY_LEN);
   printf("%s", prefix);
-  scanf("%s", passwd);
 
-  char n = getchar();
+  int32_t index = 0;
+  char    ch;
+  while (index < TSDB_KEY_LEN) {
+    ch = getch();
+    if (ch == '\n' || ch == '\r') {
+      break;
+    } else {
+      passwd[index++] = ch;
+    }
+  }
+
   return passwd;
 }
 
@@ -131,11 +140,11 @@ int tasoUcs4Compare(void *f1_ucs4, void *f2_ucs4, int bytes) {
 }
 
 
-/* Copy memory to memory until the specified number of bytes
-has been copied, return pointer to following byte.
-Overlap is NOT handled correctly. */
-void *mempcpy(void *dest, const void *src, size_t len) {
-  return (char*)memcpy(dest, src, len) + len;
+/* Copy memory to memory until the specified number of bytes
+has been copied, return pointer to following byte.
+Overlap is NOT handled correctly. */
+void *mempcpy(void *dest, const void *src, size_t len) {
+  return (char*)memcpy(dest, src, len) + len;
 }
 
 /* Copy SRC to DEST, returning the address of the terminating '\0' in DEST.  */