[MPH-76] use a fixed number of asterisks to mask passwords in effective-settings

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.1
• Fix Version/s: 2.1.1
• Assignee: Brett Porter
• Reporter: Brett Porter
• Created: 22/Mar/10 18:21
• Updated: 22/Mar/10 18:21
• Resolved: 22/Mar/10 18:21

Description

As requested by Benjamin on dev@maven: "shouldn't we just use a fixed number of asterisk characters in order to not reveal the actual length of the password/passphrase?"