Comment 5 for bug 1727816

Steve, et alia:

Your welcome, I am happy to take the time to report bugulance in Ubuntu so it can be markedly improved. Moreover, I marked this as a security based bug since it involves an issue with the entrance of a password, thus one would think it obvious to be impactive to security! I had no idea if it was because some rouge software was installed or what, just that it seemed patently dysfunctional on a prima facia basis. I also was not entirely sure if security based developers were involved with its code management or not.

The foregoing notwithstanding, I have been using Ubuntu for many years (ever since RedHat Workstation was withdrawn from marketing) and appreciate the goodness of Debian coupled with the ease of use Ubuntu adds (while subtracting the extremism of some of the Debian folks that make it difficult to install).

I can try to install 17.04 and see what occurs as well as to see if kernel replacement under 17.10 manages to effectuate different functionality.

Thank you for looking into it so quickly.

V/R,

Stuart