Asking the user for a password on startup

[joe user <pa...@yahoo.com>]

Hello Tomcat developers,

I have a class which needs to get a password typed in
on the console from a user for startup.  This password
is used to access an encryption key so I don't want it
to be stored in web.xml, etc.  I could create a web
application that accepts that password over the net,
but what I really want to do is to just allow the
administrator to type the password in when he runs
startup.sh.

One solution that I have is to have a class with a
static block that gets the password from the console. 
That works fine (the password is requested when the
class is loaded) but it breaks the regular Tomcat
startup scripts.  I modified the script so that it
does not background the java process, and then I hit
Ctl-Z and then background it, but what I'm wondering
is, is there a better way to do this?

Thanks!


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