Originally posted by John Dale:
Typing system passwords into an application seems like a bad security practice. But for all I know, it is necessary.
If you do it, you may want to at least take care to see that it is not left around in memory, files, or in a system dump. You might get some ideas on this from the JavaDoc for javax.swing.JPasswordField and java.net.Authenticator.
bad wording ( or misleading info ) by me. I did mean to pop up an input field ( JPasswordField ) to input the password info. Thanks for the clarification.
Jamie