Description of Problem: I have my linux machine setup to not allow anon access. I found that when i went to a windows machine,logged in as myself and started to download a file, down below in the status bar of the browser it shows my account password apart of the url that the browser is downloading from. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How Reproducible: easily. Steps to Reproduce: 1. setup ftp to prompt for existing user 2. download any file from your home directory from a windows box ( i only tested this on explorer 6) 3. look in the status bar on the bottom of the browser and it should display: username,password and ip Actual Results: Expected Results: Additional Information:
This is a problem with the windows tool not Linux. Quite a few web browsers on many platforms dont hide the passwords in their ui .