On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 10:45 PM, Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Once upon a time, Bruno Wolff III <bruno@xxxxxxxx> said: >> It's not like the people entering the password don't know it is visible. > > Actually, yes it is. The vast majority of other software that accepts > passwords for any reason hides the passwords as they are typed, so the > general expectation is that passwords are not displayed on the screen. > Many people look down at the keyboard to type and would not necessarily > look up as they are typing the password. So, they probably won't know > the password is displayed in the clear on their screen until they are > done. It gets worse. Say you dont use the mouse. Keyboard only. Type a weak password, which is shown in plaintext, TWICE. Now you tab over to done and your password is shown YET AGAIN for a THIRD time in plain text. This occurs during root password and user/administrator password creation. Dan -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
