password-protection

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  caprica · Member · Mar 31, 2006 at 2:57 pm

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  just curious – why don’t our passwords get ***-ed out within the admin panel when protecting individual posts?

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  cornell · Member · Mar 31, 2006 at 6:14 pm

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  Because no-one else should be able to see them anyway?

  You’re going to share them with people so that they can view the post so it’s more of a deterrent (sp???) than security anyway.

  Just a thought!

  Collin

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  drmike · Member · Apr 1, 2006 at 3:29 pm

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  Actually its customary for passwords to be shown as ‘*’ for stuff like that. I know when I sign up someplace new, I always see them even though I would rather see what I’m typing. Hate to get my password wrong. :)

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  cornell · Member · Apr 2, 2006 at 8:51 am

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  Hmm.

  I must admit that I would rather (as it does) show the plain text password.

  Imagine six months down the line someone asks you for the password to the post that you protected:

  “Hmm, now, what the hell did I set it to? If only it was in clear text rather than those annoying asterisks…”

  :o)

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  drmike · Member · Apr 2, 2006 at 4:54 pm

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  And then when you look in the database and it’s MD5 encoded. :)

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  cornell · Member · Apr 2, 2006 at 5:03 pm

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  If you can get to the database – don’t forget you’re hosted on wp.com… :)

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  wank · Member · Apr 2, 2006 at 6:53 pm

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  So you’d have to send the admins a feedback begging them to reset the password on that post…

  Does this answer the original question? ;)