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Bug 349729 - Passphrase entry window should grab the keyboard
Passphrase entry window should grab the keyboard
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-keyring
Classification: Core
Component: prompting
0.4.x
Other All
: Normal critical
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Assigned To: GNOME keyring maintainer(s)
GNOME keyring maintainer(s)
: 469365 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-08-02 23:22 UTC by Sam Morris
Modified: 2007-08-23 18:29 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.11/2.12


Description Sam Morris 2006-08-02 23:22:20 UTC 
Please describe the problem:
The passphrase entry window should grab the keyboard, in order to prevent the user's passphrase from being stolen by an attacker--as is already done by seahorse-agent, pinentry, ssh-askpass, gnome-screensaver, and so on.

Steps to reproduce:


Actual results:


Expected results:


Does this happen every time?


Other information:
Comment 1 Stef Walter 2007-01-04 00:22:02 UTC 
Easy enough to fix, but I wonder...

These boxes often pop up unexpectedly. Especially if accessing a network share, or website is taking a long time. The other passwords that you mentioned usually are displayed immediately as a result of a user interaction, these may wait for many seconds or minutes.

Maybe the GNOME usability list would have an idea of how to tackle this.
Comment 2 Stef Walter 2007-07-27 16:24:28 UTC 
I've made it so password prompts grab the keyboard as you requested, but other prompts do not. 

That will prevent accidentally giving access to something undesired (in the case of an ACL prompt), but fix the password in the wrong window problem.
Comment 3 Stef Walter 2007-08-23 18:29:51 UTC 
*** Bug 469365 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***