Keep the passwords masked while typing them in the UI

[hmalphettes]

Hi everyone, when lodging credentials in Vault via the UI, the credentials appear in clear when the input field is in focus.

Would we consider a switch or a UI configuration setting to mask the values as they are being typed?

In my situation we often open a screenshare where a team entrusted with retrieving passwords is in charge of entering them into other systems but it is required that no one can see the passwords in clear during that operation.

This is somewhat a follow-up on #4759

Is this something interesting for the rest of the community?

Thanks for your kind attention!

[hmalphettes]

For implementation we could use a font that renders an identical square glyph for every character.
For example: https://fontstruct.com/gallery/tag/4373/Password

[hmalphettes]

Hi everyone, I created a proof of concept for this feature: #6462

@meirish that is how I stumbled on the auth-configuration regression in the UI #6465
Here is how it looks for the LDAP password when the obfuscated-input class is set on the auth-config form:

[hmalphettes]

Hi, I have squashed my changes on v1.4.2: hmalphettes@e773d01
and I'll continue to maintain this on my personal repository.

I hope this helps!

[aphorise]

@hmalphettes - hey thank you for your efforts on this back then. Can you confirm if it's okay to close this issue as these suggestions seem to have been applied.

[aphorise]

Closing due to no response and issue being fixed already. Please re-open if I've mistaken.