<p>I need to get authentication credentials from the users within a Windows script but the classic "first Google result" approach:</p>

<pre><code>SET /P USR=Username: 
SET /P PWD=Password: 
</code></pre>

<p>is less than satisfying, so I was wondering if there's let's say an "equivalent" to <strong>HTML's input type="password"</strong>?</p>

<p>Any comment would be really appreciated, thanks much in advance!</p>

I assume that you want no echo of the password on the screen.
If a pop-up window is ok for you, you could use e.g. VBScript to show an IE window displaying a password field. Here's an
example
.
As an alternative you could call your script from an HTA (HTML Application) file (see
Introduction to HTML Applications (HTAs)
.
Regards,
divo