"Debugging" a password dialog

[Walt Ogburn]

Dump a trace into a file, then grep for the username and password you
entered?


On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, David [iso-8859-15] Gümbel wrote:

> Hi everybody,
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> I am trying to get an application to run under Wine that requires a login
> with a username and a password. The program runs all fine, however I can't
> login with data that should work (and AFAIK works under Windows).
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> Having entered the password, in the corresponding part of the dialog I only
> see "*****" (which is correct). However, when I change focus to some other
> part of that dialog afterwards, the password field shows
> "*************" (way more asterisks than before). The previous (i.e.
> correct) length of ****s is restored when setting the focus back onto the
> password field.
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> I have reason to believe that the password I entered is not correctly passed
> on to the login procedure of the program. However, I am sort of badly
> lacking a nice idea how to efficiently debug this thingy and verify
> (falsify ;) that I'm right. So, does anybody have an idea?
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> Bye,
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> David
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