I didn't notice this the last time I did an install. But yes, it's a *problem* if it does that. I'll upvote or whatever if someone re-opens; I do so many installs in coffee shops that I would flat out not use a distro that did this!


On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 8:28 PM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to> wrote:
On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 23:26:51 -0400,
  Rahul Sundaram <metherid@gmail.com> wrote:
On 05/03/2013 11:22 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:

It's not like the people entering the password don't know it is visible.

On the contrary, it is entirely unexpected that the UI will not hide it.

Are you refering to someone ther than the person who is looking at the screen while typing in their password? Surely the person doing that will know it is visible and not enter it while someone is obviously looking at their screen.



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