Opened 3 years ago
Last modified 8 days ago
#40275 new enhancement
Use a monospace-type font to display passwords
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| Milestone: | Future Release | Priority: | normal |
| Severity: | normal | Version: | |
| Component: | Users | Keywords: | needs-design-feedback good-first-bug has-patch |
| Focuses: | ui, css | Cc: |
Description
There are a number of places where passwords are echoed back to users e.g. in wp-activate.php when a user activates their account, or when a password is suggested when a user first registers.
Because these fields are generally displayed in Helvetica Neue or Arial, there is the potential for character confusion if a user transcribes their password, rather than copy-and-pasting. This would be eliminated by using a monospace-type font to display the password.
E.g. compare
lIo1O0loI
to
lIo1O0loI
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Change History (8)
This ticket was mentioned in Slack in #core by noisysocks. View the logs.
10 days ago
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10 days ago
- Keywords good-first-bug added
- Milestone changed from Awaiting Review to Future Release
Sorry for the very slow response on this ticket!
It was brought up in triage today, and I think it's a great idea -- this seemed to be consensus in the meeting as well.
Moving it to Future Release, and adding good-first-bug so that it gets a bit more visibility from folks.
Example on user profile age.