GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 689663
Modal password boxes prevent users from finding passwords
Last modified: 2014-08-06 17:00:49 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.
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 ***
*** Bug 708352 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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.
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.