Check the archives, this has been discussed ad-nauseum. In summary, it's basically impossible to do in a portable, reliable way without there being native support for this in the VM.
JEC -- Jeffrey E. Care ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) WebSphere Build SWAT Team Lead WebSphere Build Tooling Lead (Project Mantis) https://w3.opensource.ibm.com/projects/mantis Ninju Bohra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 05/05/2005 03:31:49 PM: > Hello all, > > I have created some targets that run <sql> tasks and for determing > the user name & password information to use (for the DB login) I use > the <input> task, i.e. > > <target name="update_build"> > <input addproperty="db.user.name" message="What is your database name"/> > <input addproperty="db.password" message="What is your database > password"/> > <sql> > . > . > . > </sql> > </target> > > It would be great to have an optional attribute of the <input> task, > let's say called passwordChar, that if set would control which > character(s) to display instead of echoing the keyboard input. So > you could use > <input addproperty="db.password" passwordChar="*" message="What > is your database password"/> > > and all that would show up as the user types would a series of * > (astericks)... > > What do you guys think?? > > > > > --------------------------------- > Yahoo! Mail > Stay connected, organized, and protected. Take the tour
