LightDM GTK Greeter

can't cancel authentication

Bug #974610 reported by Yves-Alexis Perez on 2012-04-05

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #990315: [patch] fixes 'Cancel' button press action. Edit Remove

This bug affects 5 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	LightDM GTK Greeter	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Hi,

this is lightdm 1.2.0 without accountservice and with user list disabled. When typing a wrong username, there's no way to cancel the authentication: the cancel button doesn't work and it seems that there's no limit on the number of entered passwords.

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Robert Ancell (robert-ancell) wrote on 2012-04-07:

is this with the GTK greeter?

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Yves-Alexis Perez (corsac) wrote on 2012-04-07:

Indeed (sorry for not precising it at first).

Robert Ancell (robert-ancell) on 2012-04-09

affects:

lightdm → lightdm-gtk-greeter

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Brent Jones (brenz) wrote on 2012-04-23:

Let me add "me too" to the list of people noticing this bug. I was going to file a report on it, but a search turned up this list.

It appears that hitting "cancel" at any point of the login, even before entering a username, will make it impossible to log into the system. "Cancel" does not return you to the Username prompt, and you cannot get focus back to where you enter passwords.

Related to this may be the case where you mis-type the username. Again, there is no way to return to a place where you can enter the username again.

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Balwinder S Dheeman (bdheeman) wrote on 2012-04-28:

Plz try patch included with https://bugs.launchpad.net/lightdm-gtk-greeter/+bug/990315