__/ [ 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
have that enabled until I realised it had been causing real problems.
Anyway, sorry about that...
Best wishes,
Roy
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