Give users more than 3 tries before being forced to wait for 60 seconds
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| cryptsetup (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
If you have full-disk encryption enabled, you are asked for your password upon boot-up. If you enter the incorrect password three times, you are forced to wait for 60 seconds before you can try again. You are show this message:
cryptsetup: going to sleep for 60 seconds
Ubuntu is Linux for humans. Humans forget their passwords, and they need more than three tries sometimes. If Ubuntu's keyboard layout is not the one you are expecting, there is no indication of that (bug #1862656), and it takes more than three tries to figure that out and then enter the correct password. There is also no way to display the password (bug #1862654), which also makes it likely that a user may need more than three tries.
Please give the user more than three tries before forcing them to wait, or at least reduce the wait time from 60 seconds to something shorter.
I am using Ubuntu 18.04.
| Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in cryptsetup (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.