unity greeter loses focus. keyboard input can end up in program behind greeter
Bug #1306431 reported by
Morten Kristiansen
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #1305586: Lock screen is unusable when some windows have a keyboard/mouse grab.
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| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| unity-greeter (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Bug Description
Sometimes when trying to login on the unity-greeter the keyboard input does not end up in the password field.
My workaround has been to activate sleep, and then turn the computer back on; then the keyboard input ends up in the greeter.
The reason why this is a security issue:
After the workaround and logging in keyboard input is present in the program I have running e.g. intellij.
In ther words, my password is there in cleartext on screen.
Had that been a chat client I would have sent my password to the other party.
| description: | updated |
| information type: | Private Security → Public Security |
Revision history for this message
| Seth Arnold (seth-arnold) wrote | #1 |
Revision history for this message
| Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in unity-greeter (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
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