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Just wondering... Why are passwords in forms asked twice?? 1

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TonyU

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Feb 14, 2001
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[tt]Is it a legal thing??
[tt]"A Successful man is one who can build a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him"[/tt]
[noevil]
 
The reason to ask for a password to be typed twice is to ckeck that both passwords match, and the user hasn't mistyped a password (which could happen if there were only one password box.

Mark
 
[tt]Ok. Thanks

[tt]"A Successful man is one who can build a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him"[/tt]
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