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Logging in without typing a password is quite different from making your password visible in plain text. I take it you're a developer.
by elliottkember 13y ago
Logging in without typing a password is quite different from making your password visible in plain text. I take it you're a developer.
- makomk 13y agoYour password is available in plain text either way. Not displaying it just give users the illusion that someone can't run off with it, whilst making their lives harder if they need to log in somewhere else.
- nightcracker 13y agoNo it is not. Without taking any secret information from the user not available/stored in the system itself there is no way to store a password on a system that is not trivially retrievable by someone who has access to the computer.
- throwaway2048 13y agothe OSX keychain encrypts passwords with your login password, and can be set to unload keys/passwords after a timeout, it is very much not stored as plain text.
- AlisdairO 13y agoWhy would a non-technical user know that? Even if they could work it out if prompted to think about it, there's nothing to suggest to them that they ought to.