Hello all,
Saturday, July 23, 2005, Goncalo Farias wrote:

>>> I   noticed   that  protocol  logging  also  logs  the  account  info,
>>> username/password.  I  think  the  REAL password should be replaced by
>>> asterisks (*)

MM>> this is real communication with server, password is stored like it is
MM>> sent.

> It  shouldn't or it's not safe to log anything at all. I'm pretty sure
> the  purpose  of  logging  the  real communication with the server has
> nothing to do with the user/password therefor IMHO the password should
> be masked (with random size, preferably).

purpose of this log is to find problem in case, where standard log
stored in Account.log didn't helped and You have not access to server
to check it.

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Bye

Marek Mikus
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