Re: Re: User Editor Page and clear text passwords

Yes yes, its true. Alas, it ain't quite so simple. Or t'would already be done m'man.

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Re: Re: Re: User Editor Page and clear text passwords by exussum0 (Vicar) on Feb 15, 2004 at 22:32 UTC
At least not pre-filling the password box is a simple step. How hard IS that? I mean that most literally, not sarcastically. What's the work that is involved beyond checking if the password fields are not nil and match? How easy would it be to put a disclaimer near the password box? Play that funky music white boy..	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Re: User Editor Page and clear text passwords by demerphq (Chancellor) on Feb 15, 2004 at 23:03 UTC
Ah, the way I see it is that these things are handled automatically. So what you are talking about is providing special case behaviour for a single field in the user object. Its possible sure, but its not straight forward. Its definately not a whip out a patch in 30 minutes (or 2 minutes for that matter) that it might be in some scenarios. Yes, I personally as a pmdever will look into it, no I did not see a clean and obvious patch to do it when I first looked after reading your node. --- demerphq _{First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. -- Gandhi}	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: User Editor Page and clear text passwords by exussum0 (Vicar) on Feb 15, 2004 at 23:14 UTC
I know this reply will get voted down, but please do. Even if at worst, a warning on the user page on that the state of security is neither ideal nor dire, but you shouldn't use a common password as the page does contain the password to begin with. :( Play that funky music white boy..	[reply]