[Hackage] #268: cabal upload asks for a password in plain text
Hackage trac at galois.com Thu May 1 17:50:00 EDT 2008  #268:
cabal upload asks for a password in plain text   Reporter:
guest          |        Owner:                            Type:
defect         |       Status:  closed                Priority:
normal         |    Milestone:                       Component:
Cabal library  |      Version:  HEAD                  Severity:
normal         |   Resolution:  fixed                 Keywords:
|   Difficulty:  very easy (<1 hour) Ghcversion:  6.8.2
|     Platform:                      Changes (by duncan):    *
status:  new => closed   * resolution:  => fixed     Thu May  1
22:44:56 BST 2008  Duncan Coutts <duncan at haskell.org>    *
Don't echo when prompting for the hackage upload password.
Fixes ticket #268. And use newtypes for the username and
password,    just to be more sure we're not mixing them up with
other strings.   So it doesn't echo '*'s instead it just turn