Do password fields on registration forms need to be masked?

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Do password fields on registration forms need to be masked?

Your typical registration page for a web site will ask you for a password, then ask you to confirm to make sure you typed it correctly. In doing so, they typically mask the two fields: Create Password --------------------------- | ******** | --------------------------- Confirm Password --------------------------- | ******** | --------------------------- As a user, I don't like masked password fields--at least when I'm creating them. Instead of retyping it, just let me see the pwd so I can see...

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There's a good case against using masked passwords: NNG: Stop Password Masking. Summary: Usability suffers...

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Do registration forms still need to confirm a user's password?

OAuth options aside, are users ready for one password field when registering for a site?

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Passwords can always be reset. What I've learned is that it's better to have them confirm their email...

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Why and when should registration forms ask for a site specific password if a user registers with a third party IDP like Facebook Connect or Twitter Everywhere?

This is a follow-up question to User Experience: Do registration forms still need to confirm a user's password?.

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Authentication Rot: Authentication Rot is when a users can’t log into a site because the...

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Do you know of any sign-in & registration forms that show password as plain text (unmasked)?

Jakob Nielsen suggested it in 2009 ("Stop Password Masking"), and Luke W concurs this to be a good idea, but are there any real-world implementations of such "visible password" fields?

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Nope. Not as of this writing. :)

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Is using the same email and password fields to signup OR login for registration a good idea?

Provided that the instruction is clear "Sign up or Log in."  Existing email addresses would take user to account, new ones would create a new account. This as opposed to the more traditional way or having separate forms for sign up or log in...

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What would you like to accomplish? Get more users? Create signup or login process easier and faster...

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How do you create a 3 page registration form using php?

i have created a basic registration form with a submit button but i need to spread it accross 3 pages and be able to go back and fourth between forms can anyone help me this is my form which needs splitting accross the pages <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC...

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u can store data in session variables each time the form is submitted or processthe info as it is submitted...

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Hello, I was wondering if someone could tell me how and what I need to be able to proccess credit card forms, password forms, registration forms, etc... Also I wanted to know how and what I need to proccess a form where the user takes his picture and...

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I'm a complete beginner in PHP so I'm not too sure how to code this. I have two php pages: registration.php & outcome.php There is a registration form on the registration.php page. The user needs to type in his/her first name and last name. After...

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To reload the form, I think it would be simpler to put both the form and result in to the same file...

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