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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
** Affects: unity-greeter (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Password error handling
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1067354
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