LDM2 prompts three times for password before asking for username
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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ltsp (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Oliver Grawert |
Bug Description
This is arguably a bug or a feature.
Some users have complained about LDM2 prompting up to 3 times for a password before re-asking for the username. Evidently this is a problem particularly with young children who will frequently get type the username wrong and then can't see the fact that it was typed wrong. If prompting for the password 3 times is desirable, it should probably be optional.
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Suggested solutions:
1. Keep current behaviour, but when prompting for the password, display the username somewhere.
2. Modify to only prompt once for the password by either of:
a. Append "NumberOfPasswo
b. Patch LDM2 to pass the "-o NumberOfPasswor
In a sense it might be good to have [1] and one of [2a] and [2b].
To other enhancement/ wishlist items:
1) Display both username and password on the same screen.
2) Don't restart LDM on failed login. Seems like on failed login there's quite a delay
and that LDM restarts. Does this have to happen after a failed login attempt?