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Bug 688295 - Seahorse modal dialog prevents copy+pasting passwords
Seahorse modal dialog prevents copy+pasting passwords
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 688434
Product: gnome-keyring
Classification: Core
Component: prompting
git master
Other Linux
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: GNOME keyring maintainer(s)
GNOME keyring maintainer(s)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2012-11-14 02:34 UTC by electricitylikesme
Modified: 2013-04-09 21:28 UTC
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Description electricitylikesme 2012-11-14 02:34:39 UTC
When doing an action such as running debuild for package signing, seahorse will pop-up a dialog to ask to unlock a GPG key if it has a password (but is not yet recorded in seahorse for whatever reason).

seahorse uses a modal dialog for this request, which prevents the user from using another password management application such as Keepass to copy+paste the password into the dialog.

It is not clear that a simple modal dialog is actually providing any enhanced security in this case (the dialog went unmodal on one invocation for unclear reasons), and there is no way to disable this functionality in seahorse itself.
Comment 1 Stef Walter 2012-11-14 10:16:32 UTC
This is in gnome-keyring.

I agree there could be a dconf setting to change this. The functionality to put up non-system-modal dialogs still exists, we just have to connect the dots.
Comment 2 Jeremy Nickurak 2013-04-09 21:28:13 UTC
More discussion around this class of problems in 688434.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 688434 ***