> Because your admin password can be immediately used to compromize > your computer, whereas your ssh or gpg passwords may or may not > be used that way.
I would argue the opposite. The sudo password is *by default* useless because ubuntu doesn't install a local ssh server by default. Your outgoing ssh password (on the remote machine) on the other hand can almost always be exploited. > However, if you type 'sudo' in the shell, it does not protect your admin > password in such a way. So by this argument we should go for consistency and make sure that all apps support the "password can be stolen" feature in the same way, i.e. remove the shading/blocking of the display when config tools ask for the admin password? > I still think this isn't a bug. It might be a feature request, but I would > never support it as one either. No matter how you look at it, it *is* a bug. Even if you don't care about sensitive info being released, the fact remains that: 1) giving focus to a new window breaks the "focus follows mouse" rule if you have it selected (the focus is given to a window that isn't under the mouse pointer). 2) The gconf option to disable the auto-stealing has no effect, so I'm stuck with that bad behaviour even if I'm willing to dig up gconf-editor. Last thing, may I ask what would be so bad with metacity doing the right thing and not letting any new window steal the focus? -- New windows stealing focus -- and passwords? https://launchpad.net/bugs/54741 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
