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  3. September 2001

RE: Enter password but show '*'

Rob Berendt wrote:

> Probably because every gui application which prompts for a password does
> this and the users have gotten used to this to see if they've fat fingered
> an extra character.
>

It would allow a person looking count the number of characters in your password.
BTW Lotus Notes doesn't do this (it randomly adds some characters).

This is not possible on the AS/400 since it would require that you reprogrammed 
the
workstation controller to echo each character as it was typed.

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