What would be the Windows batch equivalent for HTML's input type=“password”?

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 /         


        

Answer 1

another alternative is my EditV32 (x86) or EditV64 (x64) command-line tools. For example:

editv32 -m -p "Password: " PWD

-m means "masked input" and -p is the prompt. The user's input is stored in the PWD environment variable. You can get it here:

http://www.westmesatech.com/editv.html