[TYPO3-core] RFC: #10993: install tool shows plain passwords

Dmitry Dulepov dmitry.dulepov at gmail.com
Mon Apr 27 18:09:12 CEST 2009


Hi!

Steffen Kamper wrote:
> on local system xampp is with default "root" and empty password. This
> should work also, as i don't need to change this on a dev only computer.

Why would you follow bad examples?

> Admin user creation with empty password doesn't work anyway.

So there is no point showing that the user has a password. It will always have it. No point showing "Password: *****" as it is useless information for the user and just takes space on the screen :)

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