Virtualbox steals password from lock screen
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gnome-screensaver (Ubuntu) |
Expired
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I just experienced some really troubling behavior from the Ubuntu lock screen:
I had been working in a VirtualBox virtual machine (running Windows 10, if that matters) and after being away from the computer for a while, Ubuntu locked the screen. When I entered my password and confirmed it with return, the lock screen went away and I was surprised to see my password in a terminal I had had open in the virtual machine.
When I tried to close the VirtualBox window, Ubuntu went back to the lock screen. I was not using full-screen mode in VirtualBox.
Here are the installed versions of the relevant packages:
virtualbox-5.0: 5.0.20-
gnome-screensaver: 3.6.1-7ubuntu5
lightdm: 1.19.5-0ubuntu1
This happened on Ubuntu 16.10 with an x86_64 4.8.0-27-generic kernel.
What desktop environment are you running?