Re: [Postfixadmin-devel] SF.net SVN: postfixadmin:[482] trunk

[Christian B. <pos...@cb...>]

Hello,

Am Samstag, 22. November 2008 schrieb David Goodwin:
> Christian Boltz wrote :
> > c) add a "show password" link (with a $CONF setting to enable it,
> >    default should be disabled) which displays the password
> > somewhere (using flash_info or a alert() feeded with a AJAX
> > request) This would have some advantages:
> >    - it works in every browser, not only if you have some extension
> >    - it only transfers the password on request - which reduces the
> > risk (and number) of passwords in browser cache etc. a lot - it
> > fixes all the problems in edit-mailbox I described above - it would
> > easily allow to mail a notification to the user, which might be
> > required by some people/companies for privacy or policy reasons

> c) sounds good, but I've no motivation to write it; so either we
> ditch the change, or someone writes a patch...

I reverted the patch for now (r485) - and opened a feature request so 
that we don't forget about it:
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2332595&group_id=191583&atid=937967

> (So far, Postfixadmin is AJAX free, perhaps it should stay this way?)

I don't want to do "big" things with AJAX. But I don't see a problem in 
using something like
    alert($password_fetched_by_AJAX_request)
The fallback could be that the "show password" link uses flash_info for 
this - with the disadvantage of causing a page reload (and possibly 
loose changes).

BTW: I don't see a real problem with AJAX - nearly every browser I know 
supports it. OK, you could argue with lynx or even netscape 4 ;-) - but 
people using lynx are probably the same that do a quick query in MySQL 
if they want to find out the password. And people using netscape 4, 
well, that's their own fault *g*


Regards,

Christian Boltz
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