** Changed in: seahorse
Status: New => Expired
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/404994
Title:
Password strength indicator gives ambiguous feedback
Status in GNOME keyring services:
New
Status in Seahorse:
Expired
Status in “human-theme” package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Status in “seahorse” package in Ubuntu:
Triaged
Bug description:
Binary package hint: human-theme
(Not sure if this is a GNOME problem or a human-theme. Please change
affects if necessary.)
Steps to reproduce:
1. Open Applications > Accessories > Passwords and Encryption Keys
2. Choose File > New...
3. Choose Password Keyring and give any name
4. Type "1234" in the password field and observe the password strength
indicator
Already if typed "1234" which is an extremely weak password, the indicator is
at 50%.
It is not clear to an inexperienced user what this means.
50% password strength could plausibly mean "strong enough for normal use",
while I assume that the recommendation is to use a password where the indicator
is at 100%.
The dialog does not explain which strength is a "good" one to have,
and what to do to achieve that level.
This more or less defeats the purpose of the indicator, since
experienced users already know how a strong password looks like and
don't need that indicator, but no real help is offered to
inexperienced users either.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Jul 26 18:52:10 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Alpha i386 (20090726)
Package: human-theme 0.28.9
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-3.19-generic
SourcePackage: human-theme
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-3-generic i686
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