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List:       kde-bugs-dist
Subject:    Bug#1147: kdm login box doesnt accept RETURN whe "Login Failed" is showing
From:       Duncan Haldane <f.d.m.haldane () cwix ! com>
Date:       1999-04-06 2:36:06
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Package: kdm
Version: 1.1


Hi Steffen,

This is bug 829 reported to me and listed as a rpm bug.
Though I couldnt initially verify it, I now have confirmed it.


If an incorrect login is made, so that "Login Failed" shows, AND
a new login attempt is made extremely quickly (by a fast typist!)
while "Login Failed" is still showing, the RETURN key does not work, so

myusername<RETURN>
mypassword

appears in the login box as
"myusernamemypassword"


(Really fast typing!)

so the password is visible "to people looking over the user's shoulder"


This can probably be fixed by preventing acceptance/display in the Login box of any
characters typed while the "Login Failed" message is displaying..


duncan@kde.org







On 05-Apr-99 Artur Adib wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I am the rpm maintainer.
>> 
>> 
>> I cant reproduce your bug.  Do you still have  it?
>> Are you sure its not a mechanical problem with your <RETURN> key?
>> 
>> which kdelibs and kdebase rpms are you using (exact names please)
>> have you upgraded them?
>> 
> Well, I don't have the exact names here because I'm at the University and 
> my modem ain't working at home. But I know it's kde*-1.1-1.rpm and I've 
> also seen this problem with kde*-1.1-3.rpm. I think I forgot to tell you 
> something: it doesn't accept my <RETURN> key only when it's showing the 
> message "Login failed" in the left-bottom corner of kdm dialog box. When 
> it disappears it accepts the return normally. 
> The problem is that I type a little bit fast, and I think that most of 
> the people doesn't have this problem because the message "Login Failed!" 
> disappears in a sufficient time to one finish typing its login ID.
> 
> Hope to have been sufficiently clear this time and sorry about my poor 
> english, it's not my native language.
> 
> Best regards from Brazil,
> 
> Artur Adib
> <adib@fisica.ufc.br>

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E-Mail: Duncan  Haldane <f.d.m.haldane@cwix.com>
Date: 05-Apr-99
Time: 22:24:57

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