Re: [Rd] Masked user input - SOLVED

2009-06-16 Thread miller_2555
> ... > (This is modified from an example on James Wettenhall's page > http://bioinf.wehi.edu.au/~wettenhall/RTclTkExamples/). > > Duncan Murdoch > I had not considered a GUI solution. This works perfectly! Many thanks for the help. If I come across a CLI solution, I will post here in case o

Re: [Rd] Masked user input

2009-06-13 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 12/06/2009 6:08 PM, miller_2555 wrote: Hi - I'm creating a package of database tools. A function in the package requires the username and password as input to the function in order to initially connect to the target database(s). Of course, this poses a significant security issue given the

[Rd] Masked user input

2009-06-13 Thread miller_2555
Hi - I'm creating a package of database tools. A function in the package requires the username and password as input to the function in order to initially connect to the target database(s). Of course, this poses a significant security issue given the possible retention of the function stateme