Re: I need help urgently.

On 3 Dec 2006 02:04:59 -0800, Abs wrote:
Guys, i need a way so that i can mask the password on my program. I
want the password to appear as **** or something like that. I cant use
applets, awt or any other thing beyond our ICSE Std X syllabus. Threads
would be OK i guess but pls try avoiding it. Plz help

In a text console on any unix-like platform (you didn't specify
yours), you can do this to prevent the input from being displayed
while the password is entered:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.java.programmer/msg/a132c7feda18187a

If you want to display asterisks, you need to set "-icanon min 1" to
get character-at-a-time input, and do System.out.print("*") for each
character as it's typed.

/gordon

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