Although it's 'only' a GUI thing (subsequent password prompts are "full of garbage rather than my password") it's really really important to fix this as the user experience is very poor - they don't know it's not Ubuntu failing to correctly store their password, and hence has supplied a wrong password to the network, for instance.
Although it's 'only' a GUI thing (subsequent password prompts are "full of garbage rather than my password") it's really really important to fix this as the user experience is very poor - they don't know it's not Ubuntu failing to correctly store their password, and hence has supplied a wrong password to the network, for instance.