Do it everwhere or nowhere [LWN.net]

Do it everwhere or nowhere

Posted May 9, 2013 12:34 UTC (Thu) by misc (subscriber, #73730)
In reply to: Do it everwhere or nowhere by epa
Parent article: Fedora's invisible passwords and visible squabbles

I think that's "hiding when you create a new user and when a error mean that you have to reinstall unless you know the trick to reset the password".

The idea was not to be applied to every possible entry box.

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Posted May 16, 2013 12:42 UTC (Thu) by robbe (guest, #16131) [Link] (2 responses)

Doesn't entering a (hidden) password twice solve this nicely?

Showing the password will not help if you don't re-check the password visually.

Posted May 16, 2013 19:05 UTC (Thu) by adx (guest, #87945) [Link]

From experience, no. I've fat fingered a password twice more than once.

Posted May 17, 2013 12:22 UTC (Fri) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

And it's no use (as was pointed out elsewhere) if the keyboard mapping isn't what you think it is.

Double entry confirms the accuracy of your typing. It doesn't fix the problem of the keys not being what you think they are.

Cheers,
Wol