[ale] Passwords displaying on multi-user system?
Todor Fassl
fassl.tod at gmail.com
Tue Dec 11 16:02:32 EST 2018
What do you all make of this report from an end user? The user is a grad
student who shares an office with several other students. Right now,
there are 5 of them logged in, they've all failed to log out when they
walked away from the machine.
> I was about to use the machine in my [shared] office just now, and had
> to click "sign in as another user". In between that and the list of
> usernames appearing, a black screen with white text on it popped up
> for half a second tops. I noticed it showed my password in plain text,
> and presumably some of the other text was other people's passwords.
The system is a fully updated ubuntu bionic system using lightdm for the
display manager.
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Todd
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