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List:       kde
Subject:    Re: kdm login screen: show asterisks as password?
From:       Henry Stern <stern () cs ! dal ! ca>
Date:       1999-10-02 13:13:05
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Realize that this is a home system and big brother's not watching over his
shoulder to see if asterisks are there.  Just read the source yourself and look
for where it sets the QTextArea's (I think that's the class) attributes.  Kfm
puts the asterisks in it's password area so you can probably find it there. 
Programming's not all that hard.
Henry Stern

On Sat, 02 Oct 1999, M. Neidorff wrote:
>At 11:15 AM 10/02/1999 +0200, you wrote:
>>Hi,
>>
>>is there a possiblility to make kdm show "*****" characters when someone
>>enters the password? This behaviour of showing nothing at all can be very
>>irritating to new users (and it was for me as well).
>
>Realize that you are cutting security back by one level by doing this.  I
>would vote to better educate new users about security rather than making
>the software less secure.  FWIW, it took my wife (a non-computer person) 5
>seconds to get used to no ***'s appearing when she typed the password.
>
>
>Mark
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