Hard to fault people on this one though... knowing Ctrl-U at all is not common knowledge, let alone knowing it will work during password entry
I only know myself because I guessed one day that it might work (knowing already what Ctrl-U did on the bash cmdline)
I remember when Ctrl-U wasn't even considered a Linux thing. Linux didn't exist yet (though various Unixes did), but I was erasing whole lines on RSTS/E that way. (What, it's not a cross-OS terminal standard? Outrageous!)
Thank goodness for the Show Password feature.
I implemented that in a mobile app many years ago, but people didn't like it because the idea that passwords should always appear as asterisks was still sacrosanct.
Yea asterisks are mostly just obfuscation. I understand if folks use (and reuse!) simple pw's & have others looking over their shoulders, but seriously.. /o\
Pidgin devs have an interesting post about libpurple storing pw's in plaintext even:
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Do you mean Ctrl-U?
I only know myself because I guessed one day that it might work (knowing already what Ctrl-U did on the bash cmdline)
I implemented that in a mobile app many years ago, but people didn't like it because the idea that passwords should always appear as asterisks was still sacrosanct.
Pidgin devs have an interesting post about libpurple storing pw's in plaintext even: