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Rob Berendt wrote: > Probably because every gui application which prompts for a password does > this and the users have gotten used to this to see if they've fat fingered > an extra character. > It would allow a person looking count the number of characters in your password. BTW Lotus Notes doesn't do this (it randomly adds some characters). This is not possible on the AS/400 since it would require that you reprogrammed the workstation controller to echo each character as it was typed.
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