On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Nick Bright wrote:
On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 12:18, Kostas Kalevras wrote:On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Nick Bright wrote:
I'm storing passwords in plain text, to ease troubleshooting, and even though I have general_show_user_password: yes in my admin.conf file, the dialup_admin pages don't show the users' password anywhere (though I can reset the password properly).
Hmm, the comments in admin.conf should be updated. The idea is just to be able to see if a user password exists (hence the corresponding comment in the user edit page) and to reset the value if needed. I strongly disagree with being able to see and edit the user password in clear text (for various reasons) so the above behaviour is not likely to change.
Regardless of if you agree with it, it should be an option (though defaulting to off is definately reasonable).
You can edit user_edit.attrs to match your needs. You can add the password attribute in the file and set general_show_user_password to no to get the behaviour you want. So i don't see why anthing needs to be changed. The user password attribute is handled specially because it is shown specially (with a password and not a text html field). You can always disable that and configure the user edit page to show the clear text user password.
We currently work with two different systems - one where the passwords are visible, and one where they aren't. I'm constantly listening to my techs complain about how much more of a pain in the ass it is to support the accounts that we can't view the passwords for.
In short, it makes our lives as tech support people a lot easier to be able to see that password.
If you need to see the actual clear text password value you can do what was suggested and add a corresponding line in the user_edit.attrs file.
I guess I'll hack something in ;)
Ideally I think it should be on the "show" page only, my thought is to put another row on the table in the "Check Password" area that would show the password as in the database - leaving the "check" form, so that a test could still be done.
If it /should/ be working, please advise what to check for as I've been poking around for a bit, and don't see anything that would be causing it not to work.
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