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From: Greg Pasquariello
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1992 20:26

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In article <9204021358.AA05217@sparc7.cnm.us.es>, juando@sparc7.es writes:
> 
> Jan Chang <janc@hplds3.sid.hp.com> writes:
> 
> >Does anyone have a password editor which doesn't echo the input?
> >Or does anyone have an idea to do it?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Jan
> 
>     Have you tried setting background and foreground to the same color inside
> a field-editor?
> 
> 

A problem with this approach is that if a user can cut and paste text, they
can cut from the "invisible" field and paste it into a field into which it
is visible, thus cracking the password.
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Greg Pasquariello	grp@magpie.unify.com
Unify Corporation 	(916) 928-6258

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