i read your explanation. technically, this bug report can be closed as normal behaviour.
however, any non-technical user will certainly have the following questions in his mind. 1. why is not the password set through passwd associated with lightdm just as it is associated with sshd? 2. when the user is doing his normal work like browsing, why is there a sudden pop up 'Enter Password To Unlock Your Login Keyring'? what should the user make out of this pop up? 3. You have written the following sentence. "The root user doesn't have a password set by default, so there is no admin password to ask for in this situation." There is already an admin account created on the system. any sudo command should ask for admin account password. why is the root user coming in here? 4. You have written the following sentence. "Some people prefer this functionality so that they can lock their screen when they step away." You allow users to login without passwords but system asks for password why they lock screen! what purpose is served? is the user trying to protect his account/files from unauthorized access? anyways, any day, any person can login to the account. it is left to you to decide whether the concerns are valid or not. from a normal user point of view, there are inconsistencies and user experience is not good. dont expect a non-technical user to leave his day-to-day work and go around system administration! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-control-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1001562 Title: log in password is not asked Status in “gnome-control-center” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: create a user account with no password. set new password through terminal or System Settings -> User Accounts (automatic login off). log out and try to login again. actual behaviour: 1. no password is asked! and you get a pop up after logging in 'Enter Password To Unlock Your Login Keyring'. 2. when you run sudo command on terminal, it asks for user password instead of admin password! expected behaviour: 1. password should be asked. pop up should not appear. 2. admin password should be asked. note: however, when you lock screen, system asks for user password. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/1001562/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
