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Bug 629713 - Provide more user feedback when password expires
Provide more user feedback when password expires
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gdm
Classification: Core
Component: general
2.31.x
Other Solaris
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: GDM maintainers
GDM maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-09-14 21:47 UTC by Brian Cameron
Modified: 2016-01-10 04:24 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
patch adding a message informing user of need to change password (770 bytes, patch)
2010-09-14 21:47 UTC, Brian Cameron 		committed Details | Review

Description Brian Cameron 2010-09-14 21:47:37 UTC 
Created attachment 170292 [details] [review]
patch adding a message informing user of need to change password

When you run "passwd -f (username)" to expire a users password, and then try to login via GDM the following happens:

- user enters their username
- user enters their password
- The dialog prompt says "New password"
- The user enters a new password
- The dialog prompt says "Enter password again"
- The user enters the same password, changes their password and their session 
  starts.

Some of our users were confused why the dialog was asking for a new password, and we are adding this code to show the user a message explaining that the user needs to enter their new password.

This seems to make GDM a bit more usable and is a simple change.  Should it go upstream?
Comment 1 André Klapper 2012-02-03 13:48:22 UTC 
Comment on attachment 170292 [details] [review]
patch adding a message informing user of need to change password

[Setting "patch" flag and correcting mime type so this can actually be queried for.]
Comment 2 Ray Strode [halfline] 2013-07-30 13:19:45 UTC 
Thanks, pushed with minor changes.
Comment 3 Michael Catanzaro 2016-01-10 04:24:16 UTC 
For the record, I reverted this in bug #758571 because it is redundant with a message from Linux-PAM.