Isn't a password a form of security through obscurity?

Question

I know that security through obscurity is frowned upon and considered not really secure, but isn\'t a password security through obscurity? It\'s only secure so long as no one f

Answer 1

No. Let's look a definition of security through obscurity from wikipedia

a pejorative referring to a principle in security engineering, which attempts to use secrecy (of design, implementation, etc.) to provide security.

The phrase refers to the code itself, or the design of a system. Passwords on the other hand are something a user has to identify themselves with. It's a type of authentication token, not a code implementation.