Obscuring password data in a data grid

[Bob Sneidar]

Agreed. It works for password entry into a temporary dialog box, but not good for storage (if you care anything about real security). 

You can actually copy the default datagrid parent script to another button and then set the parent script of the datagrid to the new button. At that point you can play around with the nuts and bolts of how a datagrid works and figure out where the field for each column gets created, and do a conditional there. 

I would not display the actual password on a bullet font, because as it was pointed out, a copy paste into a plain text editor will reveal the passwords. I would simply put 8 bullets in the column field, then upon edit, retrieve the actual password and allow it to be edited. 

Bob


On May 13, 2011, at 6:55 AM, Nonsanity wrote:

> Careful with a password protect font. It may not be readable, but someone
> can select, copy, and paste somewhere else to read it. I'd only do this if
> it were a list of my passwords that I didn't want people to read over my
> shoulder, but then in that form, I can't read them either so what's the
> point of even displaying them.