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Hey, you guy's:

I am starting a Login Manager project for my OS, and just wondered if anyone here has hints, or tips or anything that you want to share with me.

Past experiences maybe?........

Encrypt the passwords from the users, put them in a secret file, ask for passwords that contain bot numbers and majuscules and minuscules AND punctuation, when the user choose a password with his/her account. Also, let'hem have a puppy or a kitten has an avatar to click on in the user menu in the logon screen, that would be a killer.
For the avatar I was kind of joking, alot if your os is textmode. but the rest is standard knowledge, you can disperse in a fractal way the password/user information. BUt make sure that no process can start until the user got identified, I think.

Display the status of the CAPS LOCK and NUM LOCK keys, as well as the keyboard layout used. All these change a password containing special characters into something else, rather subtly.

Better yet, store the status of those three in the password file, and YELL if they are different when the user tries to enter his password using a different setting, so he can adjust.

Thanks guys!
I'll implement those ideas.



-JL