Bug ID: JDK-4050435 Improved interactive console I/O (password prompting, line editing)

JDK-4050435 : Improved interactive console I/O (password prompting, line editing)

Type: Enhancement
Component: core-libs
Sub-Component: java.io
Affected Version:
1.1,1.1.5,1.1.6,1.1.7,1.2.0,1.3.0,1.3.1,1.4.0,1.4.2,5.0 1.1,1.1.5,1.1.6,1.1.7,1.2.0,1.3.0,1.3.1,1.4.0,1.4.2,5.0

Priority: P4
Status: Resolved
Resolution: Fixed
OS:
generic,linux,solaris_9,windows_nt,windows_2000 generic,linux,solaris_9,windows_nt,windows_2000
CPU: generic,x86

Submitted: 1997-05-07
Updated: 2017-05-16
Resolved: 2005-10-14

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JDK 6
6 b57Fixed

Related Reports

Duplicate :	JDK-4093009 - turn echo off when typing sensitive information
Duplicate :	JDK-4703755 - keytool displays passwords as they are entered
Duplicate :	JDK-4717813 - System.in always works in "cooked" mode
Duplicate :	JDK-4236007 - No character based terminal I/O (like DOS getch()/kbhit() functions)
Duplicate :	JDK-4530318 - RFE: Need beefed up System.in in order to write console interfaces
Duplicate :	JDK-4105487 - java.io classes need a way to hide console input (EG: passwd) like setEchoChar()
Relates :	JDK-4008589 - TTY: Input stream editing (line disciplines, ptys, raw mode)
Relates :	JDK-4117429 - TTY: Want termcap-style features
Relates :	JDK-4004086 - java.io: Add support for simple input parsing

Description

I need the ability to safely prompt for a passphrase, of arbitrary
length, without echoing output.  This is like the getpass(3C) does,
but that truncates the input string and so calling that isn't good
enough to address the real requirement.

Not all applications of Java can assume that a GUI is available,
so AWT's setEchoChar stuff is not usable for this problem.

Comments

EVALUATION Will provide a simple password-prompting facility much like that available in C as via the getpass(3C) function, in Mustang.

27-09-2005

PUBLIC COMMENTS .

02-10-2004

EVALUATION In addition to supporting getpass-like functionality, we should also look in to supporting simple line-oriented editing operations. These are necessarily somewhat platform-specific (e.g., Linux readline() vs. the DOS command prompt), but the addition of this feature would make it much easier to write simple non-GUI, command-driven programs. This RFE does not propose to define a general curses-like facility, which would be much more complex and, in a world where bitmapped displays are ubiquitous, arguably unnecessary. Under consideration for Tiger. -- ###@###.### 2002/2/20

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