Issue1628

The default Python getpass library uses termios, which is a shared C library object. Jython does not recognize this file, because it uses the JDK. Attempting to import termios causes the getpass module to throw an import error, forcing the default getpass (raw_input) to be called, thusly causing the plaintext password to be displayed on-screen.

In attempts to fix this issue, I instead imported java.lang.System.console, which is only available in JDK >= 1.6. (http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/io/Console.html#readPassword%28java.lang.String,%20java.lang.Object...%29)

I'm attaching a revised getpass module (${JYTHON_HOME}/Lib/getpass.py) which utilizes this import method.

Perhaps this should use JLineConsole support (which would almost certainly be the default) instead; that would also work with Java 5 users.

The relevant method is http://jline.sourceforge.net/apidocs/jline/Terminal.html#disableEcho(), however we don't currently expose the Terminal object (see org.python.util.JLineConsole#reader).

As of r7098 we now make the PythonInterpreter available in sys._jy_interpreter, so we can perform disableEcho.

This should be part of 2.5.2

Now uses JLine support by disabling echo. This works on Java 5 too.

Fixed in r7162

Somehow getpass.getpass started echoing again in 2.7. So we upgraded to JLine2 to fix (#2092)