[vlc-devel] commit: ftp: let the user see the password in the conf ( was a bad idea to hide it). ( Rémi Duraffort )

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

On Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:33:43 +0300, "Dominique Leuenberger a.k.a DimStar"
<dimstar at opensuse.org> wrote:
> Quoting git version control <git at videolan.org>:
> 
>> vlc | branch: master | Rémi Duraffort <ivoire at videolan.org> | Thu  
>> Sep  3 11:23:20 2009 +0200|  
>> [6661f221c5c60dcc48170af4148fc229d61bb702] | committer: Rémi Duraffort
>>
>> ftp: let the user see the password in the conf (was a bad idea to hide
> it).
> 
> Why would hiding the password be a bad idea? I would actually hate  
> entering a password in a dialog that is visible.

Unfortunately, FTP is a special case where the password has been hijacked
into an email address for anonymous.

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Rémi Denis-Courmont