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Bug 74988 - gdm provides no way for a user to cancel if login name is entered incorrectly
gdm provides no way for a user to cancel if login name is entered incorrectly
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 117778
Product: gdm
Classification: Core
Component: general
2.3.90.1
Other other
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: GDM maintainers
Trevor Curtis
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2002-03-16 20:55 UTC by Dave Bordoley [Not Reading Bug Mail]
Modified: 2004-01-07 02:00 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.0


Description Dave Bordoley [Not Reading Bug Mail] 2002-03-16 20:55:12 UTC 
If a user enters his/her login name incorrectly and accidentally pushes ok,
there is no way to cancel. Instead the user has to enter a bogus password
and wait for the login to get rejected.
Comment 1 Luis Villa 2002-04-16 01:45:27 UTC 
I /think/ this is a security issue. Note that when running 'login' at
the prompt there is no way to do this either. Can someone close this
if so?
Comment 2 Dave Bordoley [Not Reading Bug Mail] 2002-04-16 04:32:47 UTC 
just as a note:

both kdm, windows and xdm login screens appear as below

 ----------------------------
| user name: _______________ |
| password:  _______________ |
|____________________________|

and solaris uses a similar setup to gdm, although it does allow you to
cancel a login to my best recollection. personally i prefer the kdm
look as it reduces the complexity of the ui.
Comment 3 George Lebl 2003-01-17 18:47:51 UTC 
And both kdm and xdm will have problems once you have a different pam
setup.  For example AFS password might also be asked, or a different
authentication then a password might in fact be used.  I again however
forgot for a "Cancel" button :(  Oh well, after the freeze perhaps
Comment 4 George Lebl 2004-01-07 02:00:15 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 117778 ***