From: Frank Steinmetzger <Warp_7@gmx.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Kopete and Yahoo upgrade message
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 17:37:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200909031737.34173.Warp_7@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A9F9E0A.6060604@gmail.com>
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Am Donnerstag, 3. September 2009 schrieb Dale:
> Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> > Am Mittwoch, 2. September 2009 schrieb Dale:
> >> It seems as a security measure it adds extra dots
> >> to the end so hackers can't tell how many characters are in the
> >> password. Thing is, that screws up the password as well. So much for
> >> the "remember password" option.
> >
> > Control Centre -> Security and privacy -> Password entry (or what's it
> > called).
>
> Hmmm, what is this supposed to do? It was checked but I unchecked it
> and I don't see any difference. It still scrambles my password.
It sounded like you wanted to switch off those extra bulletsand didn't know
how to.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-03 10:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-02 3:41 [gentoo-user] Kopete and Yahoo upgrade message Dale
2009-09-02 5:15 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2009-09-02 5:23 ` Mick
2009-09-02 7:52 ` Dale
2009-09-02 11:00 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-09-02 11:09 ` Dale
2009-09-02 11:15 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-09-02 11:32 ` Dale
2009-09-02 16:05 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2009-09-03 10:44 ` Dale
2009-09-03 15:37 ` Frank Steinmetzger [this message]
2009-09-03 17:31 ` Dale
2009-09-03 23:48 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2009-09-02 14:21 ` Paul Hartman
2009-09-02 14:35 ` Dale
2009-09-02 14:43 ` Paul Hartman
2009-09-02 14:48 ` Dale
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