[gdm-list] Accidental password-in-username-field detection and obfuscation?
- From: David Finch <david mytsoftware com>
- To: gdm-list gnome org
- Subject: [gdm-list] Accidental password-in-username-field detection and obfuscation?
- Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 15:15:52 -0800
On a certain popular operating system, the username of the last user to
log in is the default, and and the cursor starts in the password field.
So I just type in my password and hit enter. This often causes mixups
when I login to my Linux desktops. I'll sometimes accidentally start
typing my long, cryptic password in the username field, where anyone
could see it.
It might be helpful to obscure the username if the user types
password-like username. It could be triggered by a non-letter followed
by a letter in their username, or a lowercase letter followed by an
uppercase letter in a username that does not begin with uppercase. They
could have a username that looks like a password if they really wanted,
but GDM would "***" it out like it does the password field, by default.
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