Passwords

[Casbah]

Im writing a simple java program that runs in the command window. At the beginning the user is asked to enter a username and password, is there a way to turn echo off for the password or make stars or something come up so that the password doesnt appear in the command window?
Thanks, Conor

 

[cheesus]

You can get funny using control characters, but I doubt you
will get this to run in a cross-application way.

I would allow an optional command line parameter
"-password xyz" for usage in scripts, and for interactive use
a parameter "-prompt" which will open a AWT window or
JOptionPane request prompting with a JPasswordField.