** Also affects: unity-greeter (Ubuntu Precise) Importance: Undecided Status: New
** Changed in: unity-greeter (Ubuntu) Status: New => Fix Released ** Changed in: unity-greeter (Ubuntu Precise) Importance: Undecided => Medium ** Changed in: unity-greeter (Ubuntu Precise) Status: New => Triaged ** Description changed: 1. When the password is about to expire, the user will see the message on the login UI very briefly before the desktop appears. It's not actually long enough to read the message 2. Ubuntu 12.04. 3. How reproducible is the problem? Easy 4. Steps to Reproduce: 4.1. Make new user 4.2. Make user account set to expiring with chage tool. + $ sudo chage -E 01/01/2012 -M 1 <username> 4.3. Login in lightdm. a. Actual Results: A brief message is displayed saying the password is expiring. I can't even read the full message... b. Expected Results: A longer pause, or ideally a message after login saying the password is expiring and asking if they want to change it. 5. Known Workaround: It's a usability bug in some situations and requires resetting the password on a different system in the worse case [1] if the user wasn't proactive at resetting their password. related issue : https://bugs.launchpad.net/lightdm/+bug/1067354 ? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to unity-greeter in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1304866 Title: Notice of expiring password in greeter not really visible Status in “unity-greeter” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in “unity-greeter” source package in Precise: Triaged Bug description: 1. When the password is about to expire, the user will see the message on the login UI very briefly before the desktop appears. It's not actually long enough to read the message 2. Ubuntu 12.04. 3. How reproducible is the problem? Easy 4. Steps to Reproduce: 4.1. Make new user 4.2. Make user account set to expiring with chage tool. $ sudo chage -E 01/01/2012 -M 1 <username> 4.3. Login in lightdm. a. Actual Results: A brief message is displayed saying the password is expiring. I can't even read the full message... b. Expected Results: A longer pause, or ideally a message after login saying the password is expiring and asking if they want to change it. 5. Known Workaround: It's a usability bug in some situations and requires resetting the password on a different system in the worse case [1] if the user wasn't proactive at resetting their password. related issue : https://bugs.launchpad.net/lightdm/+bug/1067354 ? To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-greeter/+bug/1304866/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp