I'm pretty sure I just encountered this bug, although all I did was issue a shutdown, and very briefly I was able to see several plaintext passwords that had been used to log in across several user accounts. I am on Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS.
This was a shock for reasons which should be obvious. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gdm3 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1803993 Title: Password appears on the VT1 screen To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdm3/+bug/1803993/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs