Question

I need to get authentication credentials from the users within a Windows script but the classic ‘first Google result’ approach:

SET /P USR=Username:  SET /P PWD=Password:  

is less than satisfying, so I was wondering if there’s let’s say an ‘equivalent’ to HTML’s input type=’password’?

Any comment would be really appreciated, thanks much in advance!

Answer 1

check out this

http://www.netikka.net/tsneti/info/tscmd052.htm

@echo off & setlocal enableextensions     :: Build a Visual Basic Script     set vbs_=%temp%\tmp$$$.vbs     set skip=     findstr ''%skip%VBS' '%~f0' > '%vbs_%'     ::     :: Prompting without linefeed as in Item #15     echo.|set /p='Password: '      :: Run the script with Microsoft Windows Script Host Version 5.6     for /f 'tokens=* delims=' %%a in ('cscript //nologo '%vbs_%'') do set MyPass1=%%a      ::     ::echo.     echo.|set /p='Retype  : '      for /f 'tokens=* delims=' %%a in ('cscript //nologo '%vbs_%'') do set MyPass2=%%a     ::      :: Clean up     for %%f in ('%vbs_%') do if exist %%f del %%f     ::     :: Demonstrate the result     echo.     if '%MyPass1%'=='%MyPass2%' (       echo The entered password was %MyPass1%       ) else (       echo No match)     endlocal & goto :EOF     '     'The Visual Basic Script     Set WshPass = WScript.CreateObject('ScriptPW.Password') 'VBS     Password=WshPass.GetPassWord() 'VBS     WScript.Echo PassWord 'VBS