Thanks David. With "inputsstring" property, the passwords were not visible in the output of ps commands.
Thanks, Murali On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 7:36 PM, David Parks <davidpark...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Your java class is going to need to be able to input the password on STDIN > I > believe. > > Assuming you control 'Test2' (in your example) enough to make that happen, > then take a look at the input and inputstring propery of the java task, > they > allow you to pass data in via STDIN. The best solution is to combine that > with the <input ...> task to prompt the user for the password at the time > you run ant. > > Since I haven't used the java task I'll give you a heads up that my recent > use of inputstring in the exec class required that I compile the most > recent > nightly build of 1.8.3 (inputstring wasn't implemented on the exec task > prior to a few weeks back), though hopefully in your case inputstring is > working as advertised in the docs for the java task. > > David > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Muralidhar Manku [mailto:muralidhar.ma...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2011 8:37 PM > To: user@ant.apache.org > Subject: Hide password in java ant task > > Hi All, > > I am using ant java task to execute a class file and passing some argument > to it. one of the argument to this java class is the database password. > > When the java task is getting executed, the entire command along with the > password is displayed in the process (ps -ef). > > Is there any way to direct the java task to hide the password . > > eg: > <target name="gentest" > > <java classname="Test2" fork="yes" failonerror="true"> > <arg value="${DBuser}/${DBpsswd}"/> > <classpath> > <pathelement path="/u01/user2/patch/testjavac"/> > </classpath> > > </java> > </target> > > > Note: Normally for other perl applications, we are passing the password as > a piped argument. Is there any similar feature in ant. > > eg: { echo "password"; } | perl test.pl > > Thanks, > Muralidhar > > -- > Muralidhar > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 10.0.1388 / Virus Database: 1516/3749 - Release Date: 07/07/11 > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@ant.apache.org > > -- Muralidhar
