Hidding a password in a action

(imported topic written by Mark_Macherey)

When running an action with "action parameter query “NEWUsername” with description “Please enter the Username to be Changed”

it puts the password in cleantext in the action,is there a way to hide or encrypt password

(imported comment written by jgstew)

With v9 you can use secure parameters that gets around this issue. Both the root server and the client must be v9.

Example:
http://bigfix.me/fixlet/details/3670