Comment 79 for bug 194472

Here is where this bug stands:
The desktop team has mentioned that they will *not* veto a change regarding this.
There are members willing to upload a change to fix this bug, but this bug was blocked due to Security team's earlier vague comment. [which turns out to be a concern about server installs]

Security team has now discussed and mentioned their concerns and has given us how this needs to be fixed for new desktop installs.

Now, someone needs to work on a fix as mentioned by security team in comment #74 .

Once this is fixed ,the previous addition in the help documentation needs to be changed to mention how to not show passwords for users who are concerned. [a reminder the password stars will only be shown until the user hits enter , once the user hits enter it will be erased. ]