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Bug 622326 - Retry user login at least a couple times after failures
Retry user login at least a couple times after failures
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gdm
Classification: Core
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: GDM maintainers
GDM maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-06-21 22:08 UTC by William Jon McCann
Modified: 2010-06-22 02:45 UTC
See Also:
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Attachments
Add ability to retry login on failures (22.05 KB, patch)
2010-06-22 00:30 UTC, William Jon McCann 		none Details | Review

Description William Jon McCann 2010-06-21 22:08:15 UTC 
Currently when a login fails for any reason (eg. a mistyped password) we reset the login window and redisplay the user list.  It would be nice if we allowed at least two attempts to authenticate.
Comment 1 William Jon McCann 2010-06-22 00:30:31 UTC 
Created attachment 164266 [details] [review]
Add ability to retry login on failures
Comment 2 William Jon McCann 2010-06-22 02:45:37 UTC 
Pushed to master.