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Bug 568656 - Last.fm Settings Dialog - Password Length Changes
Last.fm Settings Dialog - Password Length Changes
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 358811
Product: banshee
Classification: Other
Component: Last.fm
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: 1.x
Assigned To: Gabriel Burt
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-01-22 07:49 UTC by Kevin Duffus
Modified: 2009-03-09 17:38 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Kevin Duffus 2009-01-22 07:49:13 UTC 
After setting your username and password in the Last.fm setting dialog, close the windows. If you re-open the dialog you will realise that the password field has more characters than your actual password. It appears that the length is the same as that of the value stored in the gconf key.
Comment 1 John 2009-03-08 21:29:07 UTC 
Is this a problem? Having the correct password length in there tells people the length of your password, which you probably wouldn't want people to know.
Comment 2 Kevin Duffus 2009-03-09 00:27:20 UTC 
As a security measure it is good to have this behaviour but it does cause a bit of confusion as it is not expected and differs from the behaviour of most other applications.
Comment 3 Gabriel Burt 2009-03-09 17:38:13 UTC 
This is definitely a valid bug, but it's really a bug in how we store the password.  We currently store just the md5 hash of it, but this isn't right.  We should really use the GNOME keyring.

Given that, I'm closing this as a duplicate of the keyring bug, since fixing that will mean this is also fixed.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 358811 ***