Comment 3 for bug 1772791
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| Greg Price (gregprice) wrote Re: Lock Screen displayed password in clear text on one occasion | #3 |
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I just ran into the same behavior. I typed my password quickly and automatically into the lock/login screen... and was disturbed to see the whole thing right there in plaintext as I was hitting enter.
I poked at it a bit, and here's a reproducer:
* Go to the lock/login screen.
* Right-click on the password input field. You get a little popup menu.
* One of the options is "Show Text". If you choose that option, the password input now shows in plain text.
I'm pretty sure I wasn't anywhere near the mouse when I originally saw this behavior, so I suppose there's some keyboard sequence that invokes the same option. I must have mashed that as I was getting the screen to wake up.
I see why this feature could sometimes be useful when encountering an unfamiliar keyboard layout, etc. But triggering it by accident is pretty startling; so I'd love to set an option to make it impossible to trigger. I can't find such an issue in the GNOME configuration, but I'm not at all confident the places I was able to find to look in are comprehensive.
There's an issue upstream (in gnome-shell) where someone asked for such an option:
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Also an older bug report where others ran into this behavior by accident (the reproducer someone found there was helpful to my finding a reproducer, though that exact sequence doesn't do it for me on gnome-shell 3.28):
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There's even a RH Knowledge Base article for the question of how to disable it!
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That's marked "Solution Verified", which sure sounds like there is a way... but without a Red Hat subscription, I can't see what it says. The open gnome-shell issue sure makes it sound like there isn't one.