Bug#800602: Lightdm: orca speaks characters while typing the password.

[Ksamak]

On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 03:23:53PM -0400, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote:
> On 10/18/15, Samuel Thibault <sthibault at debian.org> wrote:
> >
> > Raphaël POITEVIN, le Thu 01 Oct 2015 17:12:20 +0200, a écrit :
> >> I type my password directly, with the default selected user. Orca speaks
> >> characters.
> >
> > I'm not getting that behavior. I tried installing both stable and
> > testing, in both cases I'm getting "asterisk" in the password field. In
> > the stable case, I tried to install 3.16.2-1, with the same result.
> 
> 
> Hi, is it possible that the password field in question has been
> triggered to visibly display the word instead of the asterisks?
> Forgive me for not having a reproducible example handy, but I've seen
> it couple times in the last few weeks. Because I can't remember an
> exact example, it's possible it was even for something online. Decided
> to offer it up anyway since I've seen it in action AND because it's
> interesting Samuel's hearing asterisks while Raphael's hearing the
> actual password..
> 
> Cindy :)

Actually, this bug seems to mostly appear when the following option is set:
[SeatDefaults]
greeter-hide-users=false
This is mainly used to have the "main" user directly written in the
first field, so as not to retype it every boot.

So when you have this option activated, the focus is directly put on the
password field, and then the bug appears.
if the user circles through the fields once, with tab, then back on the
password field, the bug disappears.

I've seen it appear as well when two users are set-up on the system, but
i'm not sure about the exactness of my reproduce steps, so i'll try
again if people find the bug Could Not Reproducable

I can make available a VM with the bug appearing at boot, for tests
(3.6Gb)
lightdm version 1.10.3-3, jessie current.
-- 
Ksamak
Hypra.fr
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