methods to mask passwords

[tech1774]

Hello everyone,

I am new to the IT field so I am not technical at all. I am looking at all options out there that will allow me to mask passwords for systems. I know that alot of it has to do with the code/language it's written it. I don't have a system that I'm currently working with so I don't have specifics. Asides from scripting changes, are there tools, other things out there to do this? I'm looking at all options. An example when I say mask passwords is that when a user types in a password, it isn't displayed in clear text.

Thanks much,
Amanda

 

[eyec]

masking really may not be enough. check out the below article.

http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/tips/ST05-012.html

 

[tech1774]

Thanks for your response, eyec. If I only have the option of masking the password, can you tell me what options I have to do this? Besides coding to mask it, are there tools out there, any other ways?

Thanks,
Amanda

 

[Hondy]

depends, if its a HTML page then you can just do the following which will mask the password with asterisks

<input type="password" blahh blahh>

but the password will still be passed along the network in plain text unless you use SSL and you have to know how to code and this only covers web pages.

example code

http://www.w3schools.com/html/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_inputpassword