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On Thu, 3 Jan 2002 at 17:58:08, mgkiourt wrote in 
demon.ip.support.newuser
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> I connect to remote computer through Hypertermial or telnet.
> I type the login without a problem but it doesn't type anything at the
> password's place,
> the dash stays motionless whatever characters I type.
> Any remedies?
>Thanks.Mike

It is probably designed to do that. Very few programs show the password 
when you type it - though most show *** in its place. Just think of the 
implications of someone with good eyesight standing on the other side of 
the room looking over your shoulder.

In this case, you are using programs which do nothing but represent the 
responses from the remote computer you are logging in to. This usually 
works even to the extent that the characters you see on the screen when 
you type are put there not by your machine but by the remote computer - 
a confirmation that your characters have been received. For secure items 
like passwords, rather than repeat them back, the echo is suppressed.

You may be a single user, living on your own with a computer in a 
windowless room, but security measures of this sort are important in a 
corporate environment and need to be safe even when naive employees try 
to get round them. The result is that we all have to work with the same 
consequence. There is obviously more need of uniformity when the system 
concerned is accessed from many different environments about which it 
has no knowledge - and even if it does, it only has that knowledge after 
you have logged in.

If you don't mind about the security of the password, why use one? If 
you need it or the owner of the machine at the other end requires one 
then, surely, it needs to be treated with the utmost security.

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