that way you cant choose someone elses profile?
tony
-----Original Message-----
From: Nathan R. Jessop [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 8:57 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Huge dropdown list of names...type in name as well as selecti
ng it???
Let me clarify that.
I do log in with just a username and password. Once logged in there is a
selection dropdown box where you can select a user profile? This profile
list is whats very large.
Sorry for the confusion.
On Thu, 13 May 2004 08:47:31 -0400, Tangorre, Michael wrote:
>
>> I have a <select> lists thats used when logging into my
>> application and it can be quite large. Its a list of user
>> name which gets updated on the fly as accounts are created.
>>
>> Currently when I logged in there was a huge list of users
>> had to select from. Is there any way that I could allow users
>> to type in their user name as well as select it. The idea
>> would be like how the Outlook address book works. I type my
>> name in and it scrolls down until it finds it.
>
>My initial thought is why? Why not just let them type in their username and
>password?
>In fact, I would caution against displaying a list of usernames prior to
>logging in for security reasons; why give a hacker a foot in the door!
>
>Given what you have said so far I would not recommend it.. If you give more
>insight into what you are doing I will still be against it. :-)
>
>Mike
>
>
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