As you already found out ASP.Net does not pass password values back. You can pretty easily override this if you want by subclassing the control and storing the value back to it.

override protected void OnLoad(EventArgs e) 
{
base.OnLoad(e);

// *** Post back password values as well - you can always clear it manually
if (this.TextMode ==  TextBoxMode.Password)
	this.Attributes.Add("value", this.Text);
}

As to security risk - possible, then again if you're posting hte page you're also sending it back from the client so this isn't exactly a big issue.

+++ Rick ---




>Hi,
>
>When I set the TextMode property of a databound textbox to Password, I loose it's Text.
>
>Is this a bug? Any work around?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Eugênio