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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Allowing No Hide mode in passwords
From:       Dominique Devriese <dominique.devriese () student ! kuleuven ! ac ! be>
Date:       2004-01-19 22:47:48
Message-ID: 87y8s3k12j.fsf () student ! kuleuven ! ac ! be
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Erik Hensema writes:

>> I think this is a really bad idea. What about "guests"? I would
>> hate to know that someone using a friends computer with KDE could
>> end up showing his password to everybody because the owner had
>> those unsafe settings in his computer.

> Yes, good point. We must make absolutely sure that the user knows
> what he's doing when enabeling clear passwords.

> Maybe it's a good idea to make this configurable only when the user
> has typed his correct kwallet or unix password. You don't want to
> have a visitor enabeling clear passwords. That must be virtually
> impossible.

For the record, the patch sent here doesn't have this problem.  IIUC,
it enables cleartext pwd's only for *new* pwd dialogs.

cheers
domi
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