This bug affects us too. We tried working around the issue by switching to a locale which provides timestamps in a shorter format by default (e.g. DD.MM.YY) so it would still fit into the greeter box, but apparently simply overriding $LANG and $LC_TIME is not enough to affect the PAM messages.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to unity-greeter in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1617022 Title: box width not resized for pam messages Status in unity-greeter package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Description: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS Release: 16.04 Package version: 16.04.2-0ubuntu1 Is it possible to either dynamically expand the width and height of the greeter box in order to fully display PAM messages? If one uses Kerberos for authentication, the Unity greeter truncates/fades out the full text returned by PAM concerning Kerberos password/principal expiry: The attached unity-greeter-truncations.tar file contains three PNG files illustrating truncation when: - a password is about to expire. ['password_expire_soon.png'] - you enter the previous password in the 'change password' dialog and local policy prevents re-use. ['expired_same_password.png'] - you enter a password that does not meet local policy requirements in the 'change password' dialog. ['password_change_rejected.png'] The truncation can make it difficult for end-users to understand what is going on. Other display managers - such as gdm and mdm - are able to display such text in full. In the ubuntu-greeter source src/greeter-list.vala, it is possible to increase the default width of the greeter box by increasing the value below: public static const int BOX_WIDTH = 8; This is not a great solution because the login box is aesthetically unpleasant when it is that wide at all times. Furthermore, the PAM text displayed by unity-greeter is not line-wrapped, making the choice of a suitable value for BOX_WIDTH impractical. unity-greeter clearly has support for dynamically adjusting the height of the greeter box. Would it be possible, therefore, to add support for dynamically adjusting the width and to format displayed PAM text so that it is at most, say, seventy-five characters long? To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-greeter/+bug/1617022/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
