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Bug 689663 - Modal password boxes prevent users from finding passwords
Modal password boxes prevent users from finding passwords
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 688434
Product: gnome-shell
Classification: Core
Component: general
3.6.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-shell-maint
gnome-shell-maint
: 708352 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2012-12-04 22:49 UTC by Jeremy Nickurak
Modified: 2014-08-06 17:00 UTC
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Description Jeremy Nickurak 2012-12-04 22:49:19 UTC
When the shell is asking for a password, it pops up a modal dialog, from which the user can't obviously temporarily escape.

In order to find the password the dialog is asking, a security-savy user may need to:
- Open a web browser, to access Google's application-specific-password generator
- Open a password manager application

Either possibility is blocked by the fact that the dialog is modal.
Comment 1 Milan Bouchet-Valat 2012-12-05 08:28:34 UTC
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 688434 ***
Comment 2 André Klapper 2013-09-19 21:25:05 UTC
*** Bug 708352 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Allan Day 2014-08-06 12:47:20 UTC
Hi Jeremy, which passwords in particular are you referring to in this bug? There are a variety of different cases where the shell might prompt for a password - it would be useful to know which one you're interested in here.
Comment 4 Jeremy Nickurak 2014-08-06 17:00:49 UTC
As mentioned in the original report, any password that you have to look up really applies. The examples of application-specific passwords or long generated passwords kept in a password manager would be relevant here. They could be for email accounts, calendar accounts, instant messaging accounts, file accounts, passphrases for ssh keys, anything.