Which is almost certainly not the same problem. I expect the KDE
problem is a kdm-specific bug.
> A text entry field that has been set to "password" mode
> still permits selection (and therefore copying) of the plaintext contents.
> I spoke with Arnt Gulbrandsen at Troll Tech about this after discovering it
> myself while working on a nice GUI s/key calculator (email me if you're
> interested). I can't remember what he said about why it was that way, but
> after I pointed out that while under Windows inadvertent selection does not
> cause copy, it *does* under X - which makes accidentally pasting your
> password into the wrong window (or even having someone snoop it out of your
> server - yeah, this is rather unrealistic ;) trivially easy. He concurred
> and mumbled something about it being fixed in 1.4 or so.
As I remember it, I committed the fix to our CVS archive on the same
day that you convinced me:)
> Please note that I have no connection with Troll Tech other than being a
> personal friend of Arnt's, and that anything in the preceding paragraph
> could be wrong. Arnt, further comment from the proverbial horse's
> mouth? (And please don't shoot me ;)
Further comments would be off-topic on bugtraq, and niggles beside.
--Arnt (just now back from vacation)