From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MjBM1-0007gF-MS for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:23:53 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 83EB4E0966; Thu, 3 Sep 2009 17:32:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qy0-f181.google.com (mail-qy0-f181.google.com [209.85.221.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A0EBE0966 for ; Thu, 3 Sep 2009 17:32:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qyk11 with SMTP id 11so141872qyk.1 for ; Thu, 03 Sep 2009 10:32:27 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=/4rOb7AuNEqBDxsYXAvsbBlpWBS+W754CbSMoM9hsJc=; b=xT0DLCCP2rDUb/xsziCU9SCs6sqJTzkrsArvxZ9oeHY4npdS3d7Ul7eikmyLEebtZW sSBuiHBZxrK1sZAYGqz+KsbKZc+9JJLhVqQebrQMrsK5rriulITlze2t863rYf76RGKx vNWvOVqodlnXOJQ/K7A0L+MIVBuCAkedRL0Cw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=HDbb1bfJXvQvAE4uAkA8T8/TeC7o+0zjpZSPCmaM4kvCbmk6KpZCohWx36fHnpa9G+ X5PryhhlNXNTp7HeCZTjbY0PV5UBj5wi+uY5DBP8wVGKYSty0iV/LKor8jbltJYPJ70Q 73fAohUazX0sAC2F/dyfq3o+o+UsRRkutiokI= Received: by 10.224.116.212 with SMTP id n20mr6444999qaq.172.1251999091779; Thu, 03 Sep 2009 10:31:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.1? (adsl-222-125-56.jan.bellsouth.net [68.222.125.56]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 21sm70721qyk.4.2009.09.03.10.31.30 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 03 Sep 2009 10:31:30 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4A9FFD71.7060109@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:31:29 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.22) Gecko/20090823 SeaMonkey/1.1.17 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Kopete and Yahoo upgrade message References: <4A9DE981.8080206@gmail.com> <200909021805.22042.Warp_7@gmx.de> <4A9F9E0A.6060604@gmail.com> <200909031737.34173.Warp_7@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <200909031737.34173.Warp_7@gmx.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 712dc936-9d52-4aeb-8a6e-ba5a711d11b1 X-Archives-Hash: 94477b30940f2adbe7b78ad130ec1a63 Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > 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. > The extras are still there tho. They are there either way. I want it to remember my password but it adds the extras as a security measure or that's what my research said anyway. It used to work tho. They just added a "feature" and now it is broke. LOL Dale :-) :-)