 nwrickertsand groperPremium,MVM
join:2004-09-04
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Re: Stop Password Masking 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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OZOPremium
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kudos:2 | Well, that's why applications should use standard controls. There is no need for different implementations of GUI control sets.
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nwrickertsand groperPremium,MVM
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·AT&T U-Verse
| 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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OZOPremium
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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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