Design/Coding: One Step Update: "Show Passwords" Change Request

varlene
varlene Quicken Windows Subscription Member ✭✭
edited October 11 in Product Enhancements

This is really a Design/Coding issue but "Errors or Troubleshooting" seemed like the closest category. I use Quicken Classic Premier Version R59.10 Build 27.1.59.10 on Windows 11 Enterprise. I called support and was told I needed to make requests via the Quicken Community.

I am requesting that Quicken please make the password field wide enough to display the entire password when "show passwords" is selected. The "One Step Update Settings" page has more than enough room to allow for this.

When "hide passwords" is selected, 19 asterisks are shown in the password field, which might make one think a 19-character password is acceptable. Yet, as shown below where each password contains 19 characters (made by doubling the letters A through I and adding one J) the password is not fully visible within the box in any of the three examples. Instead, clicking in the box and scrolling back and forth must be done to check for typos. I don't mind having to click in box to scroll back if the password is perhaps a long phrase, but the current password field box is just too narrow.

There is also the issue of up to two characters being displayed beyond the field box border on the right side. I am not sure if this was done on purpose, perhaps a feature so the user would see the password might be too long, but it comes off looking like a mistake, and makes the last two letters, superimposed on the right border of the box, harder to read when checking for typos.

Thank you for listening.

If there is a reason why this request cannot be granted, please do let me know why.

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P.S. My longest password is 18 characters long, yet only the first 16 show in the box when I click "show password" and being they are on top of or alongside the box's right border, it is so much more trouble than it should be to see if the 17th and 18th characters were typed in correctly or not. Today, for some reason, is the day that I finally had enough and thought it couldn't hurt to reach out to see if it could be corrected.

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  • Procopio
    Procopio Quicken Windows Subscription Member ✭✭✭

    I'd vote for this.

  • Quicken Anja
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    Hello @varlene,

    I went ahead and changed your post to an Idea so other users who have the same or a similar request can vote on your idea by clicking the up arrow (see below).

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  • UKR
    UKR Quicken Windows Subscription SuperUser ✭✭✭✭✭

    +1 from me.

    That looks to me like a holdover from the olden days where passwords were limited to no more than 16 characters.

    Matter of fact, in the early days of IBM Mainframe computer systems (the 1970s), both userIDs and passwords were limited to a maximum of 8 characters and always converted to uppercase characters. Mixed case, lower case characters, punctuation marks and most special characters were not supported.
    It took a few more years before the Logon Security software systems were upgraded to allow extended passwords, up to 16 characters, still all uppercase. (Having retired I don't know what these systems currently support)

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