Password Protection (AREV Specific)
At 21 DEC 1998 07:22:21PM Les J Leibbrandt Caleam Consulting Group wrote:
I need to setup password protection into various parts of a system - have set up a collector window and need to out the password as it is entered - I can bypass this with a small or zero length display but woul really like just to show the s instead of the password. Any ideas
At 22 DEC 1998 08:48AM Matt Sorrell wrote:
Les,
We have the same requirement in our system, but instead of echoing back *'s for each character, which could help another person crack the system by determining password length, we set did the following.
We created a small collector window with one prompt. The prompt color and the window color are exactly the same (red, in our case). This way, nothing about the password can be determined from watching the screen.
Matt Sorrell
At 22 DEC 1998 01:06PM Victor Engel wrote:
However, doing a printscreen, or viewing the screen through remote control software may reveal it. Of course this may not be a concern.
At 22 DEC 1998 08:43PM Curt Putnam wrote:
I've got a routine (function) that does what you want. It uses INPUT and echoes a * for each character. If you can't do it yourself, send me an email and I'll send the routine.
Curt