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.
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): https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1178806
There's even a RH Knowledge Base article for the question of how to disable it! https://access.redhat.com/solutions/3224961
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.
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: /bugzilla. redhat. com/show_ bug.cgi? id=1506370
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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): /bugzilla. redhat. com/show_ bug.cgi? id=1178806
https:/
There's even a RH Knowledge Base article for the question of how to disable it! /access. redhat. com/solutions/ 3224961
https:/
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.