[TYPO3-core] RFC #12236: Password-field in "User Settings" is prefilled, which does not make sense

[Steffen Gebert]

Hi,

this is a SVN patch request.

Type: Bugfix / UI improvement

Bugtracker references:
http://bugs.typo3.org/view.php?id=12236

Branches: trunk

Problem:
If you enable auto-fill-out of password-fields in your browser, the  
browser also fills the password in the first password field in the module  
"user settings".
There is no usecase for this behaviour. There are 2 possible cases:
1. If you want to change the password, you will want to enter a new one.
But the browser does not have this new password saved, so auto-filling the  
old password does not make sense, because it won't work. You will instead  
have to empty the field manually, which is a needless task.
2. If you don't want to change the password, it does not make sense to  
fill the field either, as you don't want to change anything. If you press  
save, without filling in the password again in field 2, you get an error...

So the current behaviour, if auto-filling is enabled, is not really  
user-friendly

Solution:
Add attribute autocomplete="off" to the <input type="password"> [1,2]

Regards
Steffen

[1]  
https://developer.mozilla.org/En/How_to_Turn_Off_Form_Autocompletion#How_to_Turn_Off_the_Autocompletion_Feature
[2] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms533032(VS.85).aspx
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