Dealing with passwords in NAnt build script

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Published on 2008-11-17T22:09:51Z Indexed on 2010/03/30 11:03 UTC
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Is there a way to prompt the user for input during a NAnt build? I want to execute a command that takes a password, but I don't want to put the password into the build script.

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