password hiding when entered in the console.

[renu]

Hi

I wrote a program , where user id and password are entered by the user in the console .
When the password is entered , i dont want it to be displayed.

Is their any way to do it .

private static String f_password(Scanner scan) {
		System.out.println("Enter password : ");
		String password = scan.next();  //Scan the input 
		System.out.println("The given password is :"+password);
		return password;
	}

And i call this method , in the Main Class.

Thanks in advance.

[pbrockway2]

After I don't know how many years of people asking for this Java finally provided the Console class to provide this behaviour.