exposed passwords in Fedora 2 !!!!!

From: BrianD (briand_at_spamicide.cemml.colostate.edu)
Date: 08/03/04 

Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 09:32:20 -0600

I'm not sure if this is an XScreenSaver, Gnome, or Rdesktopt problem or
what but I'm running a fully patched version of Fedora 2.

If I make an desktop connection to a Windows XP box fire up Word and any
document, then lock the Fedora Gnome desktop, type my password into the
XscreenSaver dialog window to unlock Gnome my password shows up in plain
text within Word in the rdesktop connection!!!! I dont even know how to
go about diagnosing this problem!

This is the Fedora app versions but its all out of the box stuff.

rdesktop-1.3.1-3
xscreensaver-4.14-5
kernel-2.6.6-1.435

Here is the Windows Stuff:

Windows XP SP 1 with all patches
MS Word (XP) 2002 SP3

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