Default setting for remembering password should be remember until logout
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Nautilus |
Fix Released
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Low
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One Hundred Papercuts |
Fix Released
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Low
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nautilus (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Wishlist
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Ubuntu Desktop Bugs |
Bug Description
When accessing a windows file share (or other network resource) that requires a password, the radiobutton defaults to "Forget password immediately". While this is understandable for security reasons, it is a usability "paper cut" because one will typically be confronted with the same password prompt again in very short order (without even closing the nautilus window). Just yesterday this got a smirk out of a Windows user looking over my shoulder that I had to enter the password "again." This has also been an annoyance for me for quite a few years.
The default should be "Remember password until you logout" which will be more what end users are used to without too great a compromise on security.
To repro:
1. Using nautilus, access a windows file share that requires a domain\
2. Enter authentication information, keeping the radio button on "Forget password immediately".
3. Access one of the shares listed. Usually when I start with the root share of the computer, keep the "Forget password immediately" setting, then access one of the listed shares I am prompted for a password a second time.
Repeat the above procedure, but this time select "Remember password until you logout". When you access the share below the root it will not prompt a second time (and my windows-using coworker would not have smirked).
Related branches
Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Triaged |
Changed in nautilus: | |
status: | Unknown → New |
Changed in hundredpapercuts: | |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
milestone: | none → lucid-round-10 |
status: | New → Triaged |
summary: |
- Papercut: Default setting for remembering password should be remember - until logout + Default setting for remembering password should be remember until logout |
tags: | added: nautilus |
Changed in hundredpapercuts: | |
status: | Incomplete → Confirmed |
Changed in nautilus: | |
status: | New → Fix Released |
Changed in nautilus: | |
importance: | Unknown → Low |
Thank you for your bug report. The issue is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug the to the people writting the software (https:/ /wiki.ubuntu. com/Bugs/ Upstream/ GNOME)