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Re: debAthena question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Thu Mar 5 11:54:33 2009
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
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Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 11:53:25 -0500
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I would vote against doing this.
Pros of keeping the bullets:
- You can correct errors in your password more easily, rather than
backspacing all the way to the beginning
- Users who come from Windows or MacOS multi-user environments don't
sit at the password prompt saying "Hey, nothing's happening when I
type my password." (We get this from new users a lot)
- It's the default behavior
Cons:
- People know how many characters your password is. Meh.
- It's a change from Athena 9, but so is the entire login screen.
-Jon
On Mar 5, 2009, at 11:46 AM, sari canelake wrote:
> Hey,
> I was wondering if you could change the debAthena settings so that
> when you type your password in the login screen, it doesn't display
> the little black dots. I like the way the regular Athena distros
> implement that.
>
> thanks,
> sari
