[Psi-Devel] inconsistent handling of null passwords

[Laurent Pinchart]

On Wednesday 01 August 2007 18:33, Hal Rottenberg wrote:
> Guys,
>
> User reported and I was able to reproduce this, lemme know if you want
> me to log a bug.
>
> The user has a jabber account with no password.  He's not able to add
> that account to Psi and login.  After some testing this is what I've
> found:
>
> Psi will let you register a new account with a null password.
> However, when you try to login for the first time it will prompt you
> for a password, thus negating any last bit of arguable benefit of
> having an account with no password in the first place.  But it doesn't
> matter because if you click ok without typing anything we don't even
> attempt to connect (watched the XML console) and no error is
> displayed.

This is also an issue when using Kerberos authentication. Psi requires the 
user to enter a non-null password in the dialog box, even if it won't use it 
later.

Laurent Pinchart