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

[Dmitry Dulepov]

Hi!

Mathias Schreiber [wmdb] wrote:
> We took a closer look during the Patch Review Session at T3DD09 and came
> up with this solution:
> 
> We'd like to skip the "this field is needed or not" discussion but we
> definitely need to fix the plain text output after the new password has
> been saved.
> 
> Since we only do the review, please fix this "rather small issue" in
> order to get the patch committed.

I disagree. "Fix it later" approach never worked in TYPO3. TYPO3 was always famous before for its code quality and we should stick to this reputation. We should either do it well or not do it at all. We can't lower ourselves in this.

So get rid of the "Password: " in any form and that's it.

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