gnome-keyring-daemon password dialog provents screensaver to lock the screen

[Jorge Suárez de Lis]

Binary package hint: gnome-keyring

On some configurations, you must enter your password to unlock the gnome-keyring, so a dialog pop ups asking for your password.

This dialog prevents the screen to lock, so after some inactivity the computer will still be unlocked. This dialog grabs all the keyboard input, but not all the mouse input, so you can still fiddle around an do bad things.

Just after the dialog is closed (cancelled or accepted) the screen is locked. If the dialog also grabbed the mouse input, this would solve the security issue. But if someone is there inputting the password, it's weird to lock the screen after some activity.

So, my proposal is simple: just lock the screen, ignoring this dialog. I can't see a reason for this dialog to be blocking the screensaver or whatever. This is causing some security and also usability issues.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: gnome-keyring 2.92.92.is.2.30.3-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-15.21-generic 2.6.35.1
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-15-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Aug 15 10:49:14 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Release Candidate amd64 (20100419.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=es_ES.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-keyring

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

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)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

> I can't see a reason for this dialog to be blocking the screensaver or whatever

it's because the dialog grabs input and that breaks screen locking, it's a technical limitation not a design decision

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments at:
 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=627262

[Aleksi-ajp (aleksi-ajp)]

This bug is occurring to me still in Ubuntu 13.04, the fix released in https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=627262 might not be affecting Unity interface so it is still affecting most Ubuntu users.