# Holding a Variable
**URL:** https://community.glideapps.com/t/holding-a-variable/70659
**Category:** Ask for Help
**Created:** [February 9, 2024, 11:31am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/holding-a-variable/70659 "2024-02-09T11:31:12Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@Benjamin\_Strickland](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Benjamin_Strickland)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2024, 11:31am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/holding-a-variable/70659/1 "2024-02-09T11:31:12Z")
How does Glide store a variable? Similar to when Glide asks for a PIN.
Thanks.
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Murphy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Darren_Murphy)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2024, 11:47am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/holding-a-variable/70659/2 "2024-02-09T11:47:27Z")
I don’t know how PINs are managed, but a common technique for storing “variables” in Glide is to use columns in the User Profile row. This is a good choice, as the User Profile row can be accessed from anywhere in an App (as long as a user is signed in) for both read and write.
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### Author:  [@Robert\_Petitto](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Robert_Petitto)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2024, 1:31pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/holding-a-variable/70659/3 "2024-02-09T13:31:39Z")
> [@Darren\_Murphy](#):
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> This is a good choice
Sure is…and I dare say “best practice” among fellow Glide experts.
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### Author:  [@Benjamin\_Strickland](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Benjamin_Strickland)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2024, 2:46pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/holding-a-variable/70659/4 "2024-02-09T14:46:42Z")
Thanks
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### Author:  [@Benjamin\_Strickland](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Benjamin_Strickland)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2024, 5:45pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/holding-a-variable/70659/5 "2024-02-09T17:45:27Z")
Can a PW be entered without anyone seeing those characters?
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### Author:  [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2024, 5:55pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/holding-a-variable/70659/6 "2024-02-09T17:55:06Z")
Kind of. You can use user specific columns or row owners to help isolate who has access to that password value, but in no way would I ever consider it fully secure. Data is still stored in clear text. Most businesses that deal with passwords are typically storing them as encrypted, hashed, and salted values under tight security. Nothing in Glide offers the security that I would be required to deal with passwords or credentials in our own
I personally would not recommend ever working with passwords in Glide unless security of those passwords is not much of a concern. As far as authentication to access the app, Glide handles that quite well and they deal with all of the security behind it so we don’t have to.
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### Author:  [@Benjamin\_Strickland](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Benjamin_Strickland)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2024, 6:16pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/holding-a-variable/70659/7 "2024-02-09T18:16:42Z")
Yes, I agree with you. I was just wondering if the PW could be \* at the point of input. This would be a good request to Glide.
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### Author:  [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2024, 6:26pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/holding-a-variable/70659/8 "2024-02-09T18:26:57Z")
No, there is not any kind of password style input available, unless there is a way to do it with CSS that I’m unaware of. Could be useful in some cases though.
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### Author:  [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2024, 12:03am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/holding-a-variable/70659/9 "2024-02-10T00:03:57Z")
This does it automatically, if Glide ever has a component for that.
> **[\- HTML: HyperText Markup Language | MDN](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/input/password)**
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> elements of type password provide a way for the user to securely enter a password.
But as you said, for security issues, I don’t think this ever becomes a thing in Glide.