[daisy] change usersettings : firefox fills password field automaticly

[Bruno Dumon]

On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 11:23 +0200, Andreas Deininger wrote:
> 2007/6/6, Bruno Dumon <bruno at outerthought.org>:
> > On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 14:15 +0200, Bart Van den Abeele wrote:
> > > High,
> >
> > LOL :-)
> >
> > >
> > > I noticed that when changing usersettings, firefox automaticly fills the
> > > pasword field with that of the user that is logged in.  This is so
> > > because i told firefox to remember my password.  It is somewhat strange
> > > behaviour.  When i am logged in with "userX" and i am changing by
> > > example the first name of "userY" than "userY" ends up with the pasword
> > > of userX.
> > >
> > > Perhaps something can be done to prevent this in the future.
> >
> > I've added an autocomplete="off" to the form, which should prevent this.
> > Thanks for the suggestion.
> 
> While we are at it:
> I'm experiencing a similar problem while editing a user in the
> administration area. There is an issue for that (DSY-413) which is
> marked as resolved (by SVN commit 3780), however AFAICS, the problem
> persists: I just visited the demosite with a browser that hasn't seen
> that site ever before. After logging in as admin, I chose to store my
> password, then I went to the administration area and tried to create a
> new user: the password field inside the form automatically gets filled
> with "*****".
> 
> I now see in the recent commit 4072, that the password widgets are
> also marked with autocomplete="off", which is not the case in commit
> 3780. Maybe this can eventually resolve DSY-413?

Seems this doesn't help. The only thing that works for me is to rename
the field "password" to something else.

Anyway this doesn't explain Bart's problem, because on the user settings
form there is no field named password... though I'm now realizing he
might have meant the user editor in the administration console.

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