marmuta says in duplicate bug 852032:
"I've seen this too. This is just a guess, but the reason may be, that there is 
no real input focus on the password entry field. Onboard uses XTestFakeKeyEvent 
to send keystrokes. If there is no focussed window the keystrokes don't go 
anywhere."

** Also affects: unity-greeter (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: unity-greeter (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Triaged

** Changed in: unity-greeter (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => High

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  Onscreen Keyboard cannot be used to input password

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