Enter key pressed to launch pkexec triggers submission of empty password
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| policykit-gnome (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
This wasn't a problem for me until I installed Quantal on my box. It's taken me months to figure out the root cause. I use LDAP for group authentication and assumed it was a related issue.
Using Gnome-shell OR the command line to launch an app that uses pkexec has a high percentage chance of submitting the password dialog before I can type anything into it.
To reproduce from the command line:
pkexec echo "1"
Press and hold the enter button down for a half second to submit that line. The pkexec password dialog appears and after it's manual delay for a bad password displays "Sorry, that didn't work".
On a machine as fast as mine, I have to be EXTREMELY careful to super-quick tap enter to get it to not also submit the password dialog. Even then, there's a good chance it will still grab the enter key to submit the dialog. On slower machines it seems to be less of an issue.
To reproduce from the Gnome shell:
Open the panel, type in "synap" and hit enter, holding the key for a bit longer than usual to launch Synaptic.
| Tony Maro (tonymaro) wrote | #1 |
This appears to be fixed in Ringtail.