October 8, 2026 at 12:00:00 AM UTC

A show-password toggle for Cobalt's sign-in

cobaltwii-usign-in

Cobalt's sign-in screen masked the app password with no way to see what had been typed. A console keyboard is slow to get right without that check, so the screen now has a Show app password row above Sign in.

What changed

  • The toggle is off by default. Turned on, the password shows in plain text on the form and in the keyboard.
  • Leaving the screen clears the toggle, so the next visit starts masked again.
  • The browser OAuth path, used when the password is empty, is unchanged.

The unit tests for the submit path pointed at a fixed row index. They now use the last row, so they stay right when rows are added. That fix is in the same PR.

Open

  • The toggle has not been run on a console. The host snapshot suite passes.
  • The OAuth path fails without saying why when no hosted node is set. That is cobalt#208.

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