[Bug 78374] Re: user password is not read every time you open an user, results in password overwritten

2007-01-08 Thread Cimmo
sebas I have understood, but in any way you keep a variable with the password and when you click ok it restore the old password, this IS a security issue, why you keep that? Keep in mind that I close the user's properties with OK, so everyone think that you have closed the transaction and all var

Re: [Bug 78374] Re: user password is not read every time you open an user, results in password overwritten

2007-01-08 Thread sebas
On Monday 08 January 2007 12:39, Luka Renko wrote: > sebas, we could make GUI "smarter" that it would not change password if > user did not change the password field from last Apply/OK. The problem > is that opening the dialog and clicking Apply/OK should not do any > change to password (like setti

[Bug 78374] Re: user password is not read every time you open an user, results in password overwritten

2007-01-08 Thread Luka Renko
sebas, we could make GUI "smarter" that it would not change password if user did not change the password field from last Apply/OK. The problem is that opening the dialog and clicking Apply/OK should not do any change to password (like setting it to empty or whatever) if user did not touch the passw

Re: [Bug 78374] Re: user password is not read every time you open an user, results in password overwritten

2007-01-08 Thread sebas
On Monday 08 January 2007 10:49, Cimmo wrote: > passwords are all read when you come in the users list or when you double > click in a user to change its properties? > > If the one so ok to your answer, if second then I still think this is a > bug. We cannot 'read' the password at any time, it's n

[Bug 78374] Re: user password is not read every time you open an user, results in password overwritten

2007-01-08 Thread Cimmo
sebas a question: passwords are all read when you come in the users list or when you double click in a user to change its properties? If the one so ok to your answer, if second then I still think this is a bug. thanx -- user password is not read every time you open an user, results in password

[Bug 78374] Re: user password is not read every time you open an user, results in password overwritten

2007-01-07 Thread sebas
The password cannot be read anyway. And frankly, I think the steps you describe is shooting yourself in the foot. You are deliberately creating a race condition. If we want to support all such cases where we want guidance to still work even when a user simultaneously uses different tools for the s