String to asterisk, masking password

Question

I\'m creating this simple login code for an ATM machine. You enter username and password and you logs in, that works just great. Since I\'m not connecting to a database or a

Answer 1

There's a special method Console.readPassword() for doing this, introduced in Java 6. You obviously couldn't run code like this on a real ATM, though! Swing has JPasswordField which lets you do this kind of masking in a GUI, and one could imagine a Swing-based ATM window.