EGeezer
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Re: Stop Password Masking
How about setting a default which can be overridden depending on the user's or administrator's preferences or requirements?
Now there's an idea..
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| said by EGeezer  :How about setting a default which can be overridden depending on the user's or administrator's preferences or requirements? That was in the article. Basically set a default configuration, either masked or not masked, and a check box to let the user change it to their liking.
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nwrickert
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How about setting a default which can be overridden depending on the user's or administrator's preferences or requirements? I'm wondering what people are talking about here. Where would a default be set?
I use passwords in numerous places and in numerous ways. It seems to me that there would be almost as many default settings as there are passwords.
What I find more troubling, are the web pages that are designed to prevent your browser or password manager from remembering the passwords for you.
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OZO
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| said by nwrickert :How about setting a default which can be overridden depending on the user's or administrator's preferences or requirements? I'm wondering what people are talking about here. Where would a default be set? What do you want to know?
Usually it's s standard control (type Edit Control, flag Password) and therefore it could be changed in one place (including this additional feature to show password in clear text or cover it with ***). Are you asking where settings should be kept? In registry, perhaps. In HKLM hive for all users, HKCU for particular user...
Actually it's a good idea and I support it. 99.9% cases I type password in environment where there is no any risk that someone is looking for it over my shoulder. In the rest of the cases (0.01%) I do not mind to ask - please give me a sec of confidentiality if person sitting close to me do not understand what's going on and what is appropriate behavior everyone should exhibit here... There some dumb folks around like in this case, but it's very rare.
Edit Control may show additional check boxes close to it (on any side of it) or react on the infamous occasion like setting CapsLock is on in a different way - when it's on - show *** (but accept typed characters without converting to upper case), when it's off - show clear password. There are other possibilities if one wants to think.
In my practice with IE I use IE7Pro script "Show Password on MouseOver". It mitigates the problem a bit. But I'd prefer a system wide solution to show password in clear text in almost all cases, except I'd ask to do otherwise.
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nwrickert
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| Usually it's s standard control (type Edit Control, flag Password) and therefore it could be changed in one place (including this additional feature to show password in clear text or cover it with ***). Are you asking where settings should be kept? In registry, perhaps. In HKLM hive for all users, HKCU for particular user... Okay, thanks for clearing that up.
Now if you could explain where I find that setting in linux, in solaris, in my SSH server, ... 
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OZO
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join:2003-01-17 | Well, that's why applications should use standard controls. There is no need for different implementations of GUI control sets.
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nwrickert
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| Well, that's why applications should use standard controls. There is no need for different implementations of GUI control sets. That doesn't help with entering passwords in command line applications.
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OZO
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1 edit | Everything could be possible if you have a determination. I suppose that entering passwords in command line could be redesigned too. It requires additional care, because buffer may keep that for a while, but it's possible to mitigate as well.
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said by EGeezer :How about setting a default which can be overridden depending on the user's or administrator's preferences or requirements? Now there's an idea.. Darn, there ya go making sense again... 
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