COMMAND

    kppp

SYSTEMS AFFECTED

	Those usin kppp

PROBLEM

    Tim Jones posted following.  Well, alot of dial up tools  remember
    your password in form  of * so you  can let other people  use your
    computer and dial up without knowing what your password is...

    But in kppp all you have to  do to find out what's UNDER the  * is
    CUT and PASTE.. Thats  right..  Just COPY  the *'s and paste  then
    to a term and you can see what the password is...

SOLUTION

    That's a bug in the password  mode of the edit field appearing  in
    Windows  Style.   As  from  Qt  2.0  the behavior is corrected and
    therefore won't  show up  in KDE  2.0 versions  of kppp.   To work
    around this problem in KDE 1.x either

	o switch your Desktop Style to Motif or
	o apply the following patch:

    Patch:

    --- main.cpp    1999/08/17 16:26:52     1.115.2.5
    +++ main.cpp    1999/08/26 13:53:30
    @@ -537,6 +537,7 @@
       l1->addWidget(PW_Label, 2, 1);

       PW_Edit= new QLineEdit(this);
    +  PW_Edit->setStyle(MotifStyle);
       PW_Edit->setEchoMode(QLineEdit::Password);
       MIN_WIDTH(PW_Edit);
       FIXED_HEIGHT(PW_Edit);
    @@ -1228,6 +1229,17 @@
       AccountingBase::resetCosts(s);
     }

    A  more  elegant  fix  (in  terms  of  _not_  breaking  the visual
    appearance) has been applied to the CVS (kppp 1.6.22) and will  be
    present in KDE 1.1.2.