This must be only when using the "Other" entry or you have configured
the greeter to prompt for usernames correct? I suspect the wording of
the "please retry" message was made on the assumption you have a user
list.
** Project changed: lightdm => unity-greeter (Ubuntu)
** Summary changed:
- Password error handling
+ Failed password text encourages users to re-enter password when username is
actually requested
** Changed in: unity-greeter (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Triaged
** Changed in: unity-greeter (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Medium
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1067354
Title:
Failed password text encourages users to re-enter password when
username is actually requested
Status in “unity-greeter” package in Ubuntu:
Triaged
Bug description:
Hello,
On unity ligthdm login screen, an invalid password is rejected with
the error message:
Invalid password, please try again.
This intuitively makes the user try to re-enter their password.
The problem is that the login uses the same field for both the
username and the password. Although the observant user would see that
the temporary prompt in the field is now Username, the Username text
disappears as soon as they type the first character. And if the user
is typing the password, then the password is displayed in clear text.
If we have to share the same field for both the username and the
password, then the error text for an invalid password needs to be:
Invalid login, please try again.
That way, the user intuitively expects to re-enter their full
credentials of username and password. This also respects the normal
Unix security practice of not revealing to the user which of their
credentials is wrong.
-Michael
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