gdm circles vs asterisks in password entry

[Alexey Maksimov]

Binary package hint: gdm

Gdm shows password as 'circles' even when 'Use circles instead of asterisks in the password entry' is unchecked

[Alexey Maksimov (alexey-maksimov)]

Feisty fawn 7.04 here

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=439089

[Sebastiaan Samyn (sebastiaan-samyn)]

I've posted the following patch for this upstream, let's hope it gets accepted.

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Fixed Upstream.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the bug is fixed in gutsy

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Re open it this is still an issue in Gutsy with latest gdm (2.19.7)

[Basilio Kublik (sourcercito)]

i can confirm this behaviour, no matter what you select, always use circles, as attachment goes a log showing what happens when i unckeck and then check the use of circles from gdmsetup.

gdm 2.19.6-0ubuntu3

[Sebastiaan Samyn (sebastiaan-samyn)]

I checked the source and it seems that my patch was not applied in gutsy. Sebastien, can you look for this?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the code has been changed in a similar way, that requires debugging

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the patch was only changing the standard login screen, not the graphical one, I've attached a new patch upstream now

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The bug has been fixed upstream now

[Albert Damen (albrt)]

Fix seems to have been released in Gutsy. I get the * character now.

gdm (2.19.8-0ubuntu1) gutsy; urgency=low
  * New upstream version:
   - Set invisible character to '*' for gdmgreeter.

[Gavin Graham (gavingraham)]

Running Gutsy and just applied the most recent updates. As of today, I have started getting '*' in the password mask too.
Version of GDM installed:
ii gdm 2.19.8-0ubuntu2 GNOME Display Manager

[Pascal de Bruijn (pmjdebruijn)]

After installing Gutsy, I noticed the asterisks have becomes the new default!

Why?

The asterisks are not as visually pleasing as the circles. Can we revert the default back to the circles?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

those should not be the default and you are commenting on the wrong bug, your issue is different of the one described there