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From: msc@ramoth.esd.sgi.com (Mark Callow)
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Subject: Re: Pandora
Message-ID: <1991Apr12.203211.4912@odin.corp.sgi.com>
Date: 12 Apr 91 20:32:11 GMT
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In article <1991Apr8.145758@crocus.medicine.rochester.edu>, ajp2o@crocus.medicine.rochester.edu (Anthony J. Persechini) writes:
|> A while back the Pandora graphical login interface started
|> echoing passwd back. I have disabled it, but am now
|> wondering if others have had this happen to them, what the fix is
|> and what causes it. I am using a 4D20G under 3.3.1
|> 

It sounds like somehow your font directory has got screwed up.  Pandora uses
a font full of spaces (/usr/lib/fmfonts/space10.fm - I think) while you
are typing the password.  It sounds like your space10.fm has somehow become
a font with real glyphs.

Pandora uses this font so that it could use a standard text field from the
toolkit it uses.
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