Re: concealing passwords

2005-08-01 Thread Jeffrey E Care
The problem with using for passwords is then you need a person actually sitting there watching for the prompt. IIRC is smart enough to see if the property is already bound, but that leads us back to the original problem of how to bind that property in the first place. -- Jeffrey E. Care ([EM

Re: AW: concealing passwords

2005-08-01 Thread Steve Loughran
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then you need a system with a graphical user interface. E.g. gump has not ... CVS_HEAD skips the prompt if the property is set; I dont know if the 1.6.x version does. -steve - To unsubscribe, e-m

AW: concealing passwords

2005-08-01 Thread Jan.Materne
Then you need a system with a graphical user interface. E.g. gump has not ... Jan >-Ursprüngliche Nachricht- >Von: Patrick Martin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Gesendet: Montag, 1. August 2005 13:51 >An: Ant Users List >Betreff: Re: concealing passwords > >Hello, &g

Re: concealing passwords

2005-08-01 Thread Patrick Martin
Hello, You can also get the user input via an antform [1] UI which can star passwords: Not tested, but something like that should work. [1] http://antforms.sourceforge.net/ On 8/1/05, Steve Loughran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Roedy Green wrote: > > I notice that in all the scripts I hav

Re: concealing passwords

2005-08-01 Thread Steve Loughran
Roedy Green wrote: I notice that in all the scripts I have seen people just insert their passwords as plain text in the scripts, e.g. for jarsigning. I don't want to do that since I will be distributing the scripts along with source code. It seems there are several ways you could handle it:

Re: concealing passwords

2005-07-30 Thread Jeffrey E Care
In WebSphere we use a two-tier property file system: *user.build.properties (located in $HOME) contains user specific properties (such as passwords) and any local settings the user wishes to override (such as whether to build the javadocs) *build.properties (located in the source tree) contains

concealing passwords

2005-07-30 Thread Roedy Green
I notice that in all the scripts I have seen people just insert their passwords as plain text in the scripts, e.g. for jarsigning. I don't want to do that since I will be distributing the scripts along with source code. It seems there are several ways you could handle it: 1. put the password