1 (edited by Lucas Malor 2008-02-02 23:49)

Topic: Obscured passwords

Why passwords in the install page are not hidden with asterisks? I know password errors are common, but there's a confirm box.

If someone want to see passwords, you can add a button to show/hide them.

Re: Obscured passwords

A) this has alredy been mentiond.

B) Like someone said, you dont exaclty intstall punbb with many if any people around ... so showing them inst a problem... The only possible flaw i see is when the password is rembmerd, like a textbox does, and you can see the paswords.

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Re: Obscured passwords

Conversely, however, you don't always do jobs like that when there isn't anyone around. Obscuring passwords is basic security. I personally could never understand why the installer password input boxes were of type text, rather than password. You can't always guarantee no-one will be around.

Re: Obscured passwords

Alright, alright. I'll change it back. I used to have it as a password field and then people complained about that.

"Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life."

5 (edited by Lucas Malor 2008-02-04 14:49)

Re: Obscured passwords

Rickard wrote:

I used to have it as a password field and then people complained about that.

People are not ever happy big_smile

Anyway you could add a button with a javascript function that shows password as clear text

Re: Obscured passwords

Done.

"Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life."

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Re: Obscured passwords

Rickard wrote:

Alright, alright. I'll change it back. I used to have it as a password field and then people complained about that.

big_smile big_smile

Re: Obscured passwords

Lucas Malor wrote:

Anyway you could add a button with a javascript function that shows password as clear text

If this is done, please ensure that that link only shows up if javascript is available (not everyone has javascript on).

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