I have a form where you can edit user information. There's a text box of
type password that I prefill with the value from the DB. But it doesn't show
anything and is acting as if it's not filled in (I have a required field
validator on the field and it is coming up as blank.)
I know the value is there because I look at it through VS and the value is
being set. But it looks like it get cleared out before displaying to the
user.
Any thoughts?
TIA - Jeff.
Mark Rae [MVP] - 16 May 2008 23:35 GMT
> Any thoughts?
Yes. Specifically, UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES even try to do this!!!!!
If you populate a password field, it might show up to you as asterisks, but
do a View Source and you'll see it there in plain text.
As security risks go, it doesn't get much worse than this...

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