@vt_mruhlin said:
Actually, I only see this being a security vulnerability if there's a corresponding "save password" feature.
I wasn't really suggesting it was a security hole per se, just a "oh no, you didn't..... omfg you did, didn't you? ..... why?!" moment.
Still, it's not as secure as using a proper password box - I'm pretty sure you can snoop the text of an input box through a whole range of windows APIs (I'm no Windows programmer, I'm afraid), although if you have the ability to run code you can probably just snoop on the keypresses or something.
This piece of accounting software has a whole crapload of other wtfs - including the wonderful "crashes if you use the scrolly mouse wheel" (I think the fast scrolling makes it run queries so fast they end up being run in parallel and it falls over as a result, but I really don't know...). I'll find an opportunity to document them someday.
It's one of those pieces of software which was written to allow consultants to rack up the hours.