Bug 959541

Summary: root password is shown when being typed during installation
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Dan Mashal <dan.mashal>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 19CC: anaconda-maint-list, g.kaviyarasu, jonathan, kevin, metherid, mkolman, robatino, sbueno, vanmeeuwen+fedora
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Description Dan Mashal 2013-05-03 18:11:32 UTC
root password is shown when being typed during installation

this is a security issue. please undo this change or add an icon to show the password. 

if the password is "insecure" it is reaveled again

Comment 1 Chris Lumens 2013-05-03 18:13:23 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 958608 ***

Comment 2 Rahul Sundaram 2013-05-03 23:34:29 UTC
Reopening this.  I haven't seen a single paper advocating for this or even a single software do what Anaconda is doing here.  Sometimes, you have an option to show passwords and that would be a nice thing to have and mobile UI might show one character at a time when typing (but only because it is very easy to mistype in a cramped screen) but there is no precedent for showing the entire password when the widget is focused.  Please rethink this.  Thanks

Comment 3 Andre Robatino 2013-05-03 23:47:27 UTC
This bug was originally a dupe of the other one, not sure if you intended to reopen this one.

Comment 4 Rahul Sundaram 2013-05-04 01:45:13 UTC
oh, you are right. let me fix this.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 958608 ***