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Posted to dev@ant.apache.org by st...@apache.org on 2005/03/02 22:45:11 UTC
cvs commit: ant/docs/manual/CoreTasks input.html
stevel 2005/03/02 13:45:11
Modified: docs/manual/CoreTasks input.html
Log:
"please stop complaining about the echo"
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a property should be set by the task that has already been set in the
project (and the task wouldn't have any effect).</p>
+<p>A regular complaint about this task is that it echoes characters to the
+console, this is a critical security defect, we must fix it immediately, etc, etc.
+We know it leaves something to be desired, but the problem is Java, not Ant.
+There is nothing we can do to stop the console echoing. </p>
+
+<p>
+IDE behaviour depends upon the IDE: some hang waiting for input, some let you
+type it in. For this situation, place the password in a (secured) property
+file and load in before the input task.</p>
+
<h3>Parameters</h3>
<table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
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