pidgin: b05f9366: Password reenter prompt only for account...

[Ethan Blanton]

Mark Doliner spake unto us the following wisdom:
> On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Sulabh Mahajan<sulabh.dev at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Since we are discussing, why do we ask the user to reenter password only for
> > the accounts that do not save the password. Why don't we do so for those
> > accounts where password is saved. If the server is saying that password is
> > incorrect, user will have to eventually change the password.
> 
> I think maybe the reasoning might have been that if the user is saving
> their password then they've probably had their password set correct
> for a long time, and it is more likely that the server has a bug and
> is incorrectly telling us our password is wrong even though it isn't.
> And in that case we don't want to force the user to re-enter their
> password.  I'm not sure that's really a valid concern, and I'm in
> favor of always setting the password to NULL for all protocols.

While I have no strong feelings either way on this matter, I will
point out that a lot of users have no idea what their password is, and
if we go around deleting it, they may never be able to log in again.

Ethan

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