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Since Java 6 there is first-class support for reading passwords on the command line #47

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ShulluTech opened this issue May 12, 2019 · 0 comments

ShulluTech commented May 12, 2019

Remove password kludge with Java 6's Console's readPassword method.

Example from the API Javadoc:

 Console cons;
 char[] passwd;
 if ((cons = System.console()) != null &&
     (passwd = cons.readPassword("[%s]", "Password:")) != null) {
     ...
     java.util.Arrays.fill(passwd, ' ');
 }

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