Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-ant-dev-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 97174 invoked from network); 3 Feb 2005 21:40:55 -0000 Received: from hermes.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (209.237.227.199) by minotaur-2.apache.org with SMTP; 3 Feb 2005 21:40:55 -0000 Received: (qmail 57741 invoked by uid 500); 3 Feb 2005 21:40:54 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-ant-dev-archive@ant.apache.org Received: (qmail 57684 invoked by uid 500); 3 Feb 2005 21:40:54 -0000 Mailing-List: contact dev-help@ant.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Help: List-Post: List-Id: "Ant Developers List" Reply-To: "Ant Developers List" Delivered-To: mailing list dev@ant.apache.org Received: (qmail 97705 invoked by uid 99); 3 Feb 2005 17:18:16 -0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.4 required=10.0 tests=DNS_FROM_RFC_ABUSE X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (hermes.apache.org: local policy) Message-ID: <42025CC9.1060609@ePost.de> Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 18:18:01 +0100 From: "Th. Schapitz" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: de-DE, de, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ant Developers List Subject: Re: DO NOT REPLY [Bug 33354] - input task should hide password entries References: <200502021331.j12DVQWM006480@ajax.apache.org> In-Reply-To: <200502021331.j12DVQWM006480@ajax.apache.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Checked: Checked X-Spam-Rating: minotaur-2.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N bugzilla@apache.org schrieb: >DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL, BUT PLEASE POST YOUR BUG� >RELATED COMMENTS THROUGH THE WEB INTERFACE AVAILABLE AT >. >ANY REPLY MADE TO THIS MESSAGE WILL NOT BE COLLECTED AND� >INSERTED IN THE BUG DATABASE. > >http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33354 > > > > > >------- Additional Comments From stevel@apache.org 2005-02-02 14:31 ------- >Richard, > >To call getpass() we'd need a JNI implementation for every platform that ant >runs on. > > > Not necessarily so! See here: http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/Security/pwordmask/ The problem is known at sun, and a fix pending, but not yet done. The article provides a fix, that albeit clumsy, that is a.) backward compatible b.) (mostly) portable. Because this might be interesting for more than one project: how about placing a class for this into commons io? Regards Thomas --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-help@ant.apache.org