[1.8.x] Removed contrib.auth.forms.mask_password()

This function is unused since dce820ff70f00e974afd3e6e310aa825bc55319f
after being introduced in 718a5ba1a1a77374c26b134ded46dab13776d1a1

Backport of a53541852d5601232899e54d66e623bc163c6dc2 from master

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/django/contrib/auth/forms.py b/django/contrib/auth/forms.py
index d410bbb9bc..3d19b2247e 100644
--- a/django/contrib/auth/forms.py
+++ b/django/contrib/auth/forms.py
@@ -20,15 +20,6 @@ from django.contrib.auth.tokens import default_token_generator
 from django.contrib.sites.shortcuts import get_current_site
 
 
-UNMASKED_DIGITS_TO_SHOW = 6
-
-
-def mask_password(password):
-    shown = password[:UNMASKED_DIGITS_TO_SHOW]
-    masked = "*" * max(len(password) - UNMASKED_DIGITS_TO_SHOW, 0)
-    return shown + masked
-
-
 class ReadOnlyPasswordHashWidget(forms.Widget):
     def render(self, name, value, attrs):
         encoded = value