Fedora 19 To Stop Masking Passwords

First time accepted submitter PAjamian writes "Maintainers of the Anaconda installer in Fedora have taken it upon themselves to show passwords in plaintext on the screen as they are entered into the installer. Following on the now recanted statements of security expert Bruce Schneier, Anaconda maintainers have decided that it is not a security risk to show passwords on your screen in the latest Alpha release of Fedora 19. Members of the Fedora community on the Fedora devel mailing list are showing great concern over this change in established security protocols." Note: the change was first reported in the linked thread by Dan Mashal.

Obligatory bash.org

[Anonymous Coward]

Obligatory bash.org quote [bash.org]

Re:why isn't there a flag?

[cervesaebraciator]

Many times I'd like to see my password in clear text (like when entering new passwords, to make sure they're correct). It would be convenient to have some way to temporarily turn off asterisk masking.

I solve this problem by making all my passwords ********.

no problem

[ssam]

my password is '*********' so there will be no change for me

Re:Windows 8

[Anonymous Coward]

For mentioning a Microsoft product, we had to mod you down.

Re:Arrogant maintainers...

[RawsonDR]

We just have to find a key on the keyboard that people are unlikely to use but is always present. How about this "CapsLk" one?

i DON'T THINK MY KEYBOARD HAS THAT ONE

i don"t often post on slashdot because holding down the shift key is far too tedious