[Tutor] Password

[Alberto Troiano]

Hey

I think that is a good built-in way to protect your passwords, but then I 
don't know if a text file is the best way to store them. I think (in my 
opinion) I consider using a database to store tha info.

There is a way to make the entry appears as *.

txtPass=Entry(root,width=25,show="*")

The show attribute accomplish what you want

Regards

Alberto

>From: Øyvind <python at kapitalisten.no>
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>To: tutor at python.org
>Subject: [Tutor] Password
>Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 14:46:43 +0200 (CEST)
>
>Hello.
>
>I am trying to make a loginbox for a program, and need to make a somewhat
>safe passwordroutine.
>
>Will this work?
>
>import md5
>h = md5.new()
>h.update(password)
>h.hexdigest()
>
>The user enters a password first. These lines will create a string:
>'12c0faae657b3d068c0f19b71f5b43bc' This string will be stored in the file
>settings.txt
>
>Then, I will do the same where the password is entered in a GUI-box. Then
>I will do the same, and compare. If file.readline == h.hexdigest() the
>user will be accepted. Is this a good way to do this?
>
>And a second question. I have made a tkinter box with two entry-fields. Is
>there a way to make the letters in the second entrybox appear as **** as
>the user types his password? Is there some built in function in the
>Tkinter Entry that does this?
>
>Thanks in advance
>
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