More proof that your Mac is smart and tries to be helpful.
If you’ve been using a Mac — or any computer, for that matter — for some time now, you should realize that in many cases, passwords are case-sensitive. That means that password isn’t the same as PASSWORD or PassWord.
Pretty basic stuff, right?
But did you know that when your Mac displays an authenticate dialog like the one shown here, if your Caps Lock key is down, it automatically displays a little icon in the password field to tell you about it? Just press the Caps Lock key again to turn off caps lock and the icon goes away.
Page References
You can learn more about security and the authenticate dialog in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard: Visual QuickStart Guide on the following pages:
- Launching the Mac OS X Installer, page 3.
- Connecting to iDisks, page 458-459.
- Setting an item’s permissions, page 496.
- Using the network browser, page 498.
- Unlocking System Preferences, page 505.
- Making files accessible to the administrator, page 527.
- Setting Keychain access control options, page 535.
- Unlocking a keychain, page 538.
