By "consistent", I meant that I would have expected Apple to always display a a dialog box in which to enter a password, regardless of the fact that the password might be a blank space. That seems to be bypassed.

Dk is entirely correct in his assumption, according to what I see. Perhaps someone else would care to verify this?

Jon

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