How can I disable terminal echoing of input?

[mike2312]

In C/C++ we have curses to use to manipulate the terminal in Unix/Linux/SunOS and there are functions one can use to turn off terminal echoing and then turn it back on.

Heres the issue, I want to read in a user password, the program is all text based, so I would like the password to be hidden.

What ways are there in Java to do this? Ive seen something out there called Jcurses (on sourceforge) except it looks like a dead project.

 

[hologram]

If you use Swing you can use

javax.swing.JPasswordField

 

[JavaDude32]

Hmm, maybe this is just telnet but I think there is a ECHO_OFF character perhaps per operating system?