Comment 6 for bug 1803993

HI Seth,

Sorry. It is plymouth 0.9.3ubuntu7.18.04.1 amd64

On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 5:35 PM Seth Arnold <email address hidden>
wrote:

> Hello Thomas, sadly you only got half of the version number. Can you
> please paste in the full version number?
>
> Thanks
>
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> Title:
> Password appears on the VT1 screen
>
> Status in gdm3 package in Ubuntu:
> Incomplete
> Status in plymouth package in Ubuntu:
> Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> This was found when an administrative error made /home directory
> inaccessible. Any users that tried to login after that, were not able
> to (which is expected) but their password appears on the VT1 screen.
> Under normal circumstances, VT1 is not visible. But once the system
> was sent into this compromised mode, one can press ctrl+alt+F1 and
> then ctrl+alt+F2 and get a momentary glance at VT1. One can keep
> toggling between these key combinations in order to make out the
> password(s) on VT1.
>
> As a further test, I wanted to see if a non-super user could cause
> this condition, and it is in fact possible. As a regular user, I made
> their own home directory not writable and then removed ~/.config and
> logged out. Then logged in as that user again, and although that user
> can't login the system does go into that mode where passwords appear
> on VT1 and are viewable with the key combinations mentioned herein.
> Further, any other users that login will see no problem, but when they
> logon their passwords also appear on VT1 and are viewable.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
> Package: gdm3 3.28.3-0ubuntu18.04.3
> Uname: Linux 4.19.2-041902-generic x86_64
> ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.5
> Architecture: amd64
> CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
> Date: Mon Nov 19 08:32:59 2018
> InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-08-25 (85 days ago)
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64
> (20180426)
> ProcEnviron:
> TERM=xterm-256color
> PATH=(custom, no user)
> XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: gdm3
> UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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