This has been suggested before (with code to do it),
but rejected on security grounds, see:

https://github.com/galaxyproject/galaxy/pull/393

What would you do with the password when calling
your tool? If you use it directly in the command line
string then it will appear in the Galaxy logs, but also
be visible in the history details within Galaxy.

Peter

On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 9:28 AM, Mohamed Kassam <k.mamoud@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
> I would like to hide when typing a password in a tool I develloped.
> Do you have the tag I have to use, I tried type="password" but it does not
> work.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
>
>
>

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