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Maciej Lizewski commented on CONNECTORS-737:
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or we could display obfuscated password in form elements. Then if posted value
differs from stored one - it is assumed password changed and it is obfuscated
and overwrites the one stored in config. It is still better to show obfuscated
password in html source that clear text password :)
> passwords handling in Manifold
> ------------------------------
>
> Key: CONNECTORS-737
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CONNECTORS-737
> Project: ManifoldCF
> Issue Type: Wish
> Components: Active Directory authority, GoogleDrive connector
> Affects Versions: ManifoldCF 1.2
> Reporter: Maciej Lizewski
> Assignee: Karl Wright
> Fix For: ManifoldCF next
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> Currently you can see stored passwords in HTML body of the page which is
> quite big security hole. We could rewrite it so that the field is presented
> with some predefined constant string, like "###########" (only to show the
> field with some entered text). Then in process*Post handlers we should check
> if someone entered anything different here and only in such case overwrite
> previously stored password. When posted value is equal to "###########" - we
> leave previous password in configuration intact.
> this applies to almost all connectors...
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