Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> __/ [ Hadron Quark ] on Saturday 12 August 2006 11:51 \__
>
>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>
>>> __/ [ Gubo Dangle ] on Saturday 12 August 2006 03:11 \__
>>>
>>>> Hadron Quark formulated on Saturday :
>>>>> OK. Heres a question.
>>>>>
>>>>> We all love the GNUs/KDE/Gnome/mishmash of our choice sat on top of the
>>>>> Linux Kernal.
>>>>>
>>>>> Q: Why does Gnome let you hit "delete/backspace" when entering a
>>>>> password yet the sudo command in bash counts it as a legitimate password
>>>>> try?
>>>>>
>>>>> Over to us all to discuss it.
>>>>>
>>>>> (Oh, and Kier, please dont say "choice").
>>>>
>>>> You haven't got your keyboard configured correctly. Gome's/KDE/X all
>>>> handle keyboards through their own means. bash does it for itself too.
>>>>
>>>> Stupid, but that's Linux for you....
>>>
>>> Actually, it's more about inconvenience than it is about
>>> security (as the subject line arguably suggests). One ought
>>> to argue that Windows XP is less secure because the login
>>> screen diplays dots for each character entered. In GNOME
>>> (e.g. Ubuntu), I believe this is the default behaviour as
>>> well. With KDE, there's an option: no indicators, 1 star for
>>> each character, or 3 stars per character entered, IIRC. In
>>> the third case (the one I stick to), this makes the number
>>> of characters entered harder to count. If someone looks over
>>> your shoulder, then perhaps listening to the taps would deem
>>> reasonable. This still won't compensate for faking strokes
>>> and backspacing though. Invisibility is the best option.
>>> Keyboard issues in bash seem to suggest that the
>>> distribution is badly configured or semi-baked. I doubt
>>> Ubuntu will have this problem 'out of the box', unless
>>> something went awry in the configuration stage.
>>
>> I'll ask you again : why do you feel the need to be the only person in
>> the work to right justify *some* of your posts. It is ugly & unintuitive
>> to read because of variable spacing. Please tell.
>
> I'll have to remember not to do that when you are involved in the thread. I
> tried to remember. Justifiaction is just CTRL+ALT+7 away and I think it
> looks okay. I have seen other who do the same. As for hyphenation, I
> used to
Who? You are the only poster I have ever seen who does it - and it
simply makes no sense. English is single spaced and reads from right to
left.
> have that enabled until I realised it had been causing real problems.
> Anyway, sorry about that...
No need to apologise : I was just interested as to why you wanted to do
it - its not easy to read and is totally non standard.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Roy
>
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