Quoting Bob Tanner (tanner at real-time.com): > Quoting Mike Bresnahan (mbresnah at visi.com): > > This was asked recently on the TCJUG. Noone offered a solution other than > > using JNI to call either getpass(3) or tcsetattr(2). Me thinks the Java > > designers decided that terminal I/O was not part of the least common > > demoninator. > > I've been messing around with the streams and experimenting with replacing > System.in, but I can't keep the keystrokes from appearing on the console. > > getpass(3) or tcsetattr(2) Eeek! I don't think those will work under Losedows. > Well, I got this working using JNI and tcsetattr(2). It was actually very simple. Read the JNI stuff, it should be just as easy for someone to write a windows DLL that does the same thing my share lib does. Of course, that person will not be me, since I don't have a Windows dev environment. I am actually very surprised how easy JNI makes hooking into native code. -- Bob Tanner <tanner at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.mn-linux.org, Minnesota, Linux | Fax : (952)943-8500 Key fingerprint = 6C E9 51 4F D5 3E 4C 66 62 A9 10 E5 35 85 39 D9