On mer., 2015-05-13 at 20:05 +0200, Andreas Schmidt wrote: > Package: lightdm-gtk-greeter > Version: 2.0.0-3 > Severity: wishlist > > Dear Maintainer, > > I work at a laptop computer that I usually suspend instead of shutting down. > After opening the lid, I usually tap the space key to restart the computer. > Sometimes, a spurious space character makes it into the field for the user > name > as first character. Naturally, user name and password don't match in this > case. > However, as my password is quite long, I usually tend to assume I have > mistyped > the password, thus losing time and nerves by repeatedly retyping the password > before thinking of the stray space character in front of the user name. :-) > > Wouldn't it be possible to remove leading spaces from the input in the user > name field before matching user and password? Are leading spaces in user names > even allowed? If so, unconditionally removing them could cause issues for > people > with such user names. These might be prevented, however, if the test was for a > match of (password and username) OR (password and username without leading > spaces), rather than just (password and username).
I'm honestly really not confident about that, that doesn't look like a great idea at first sight, so you'd have to justify a bit more it's safe. Regards, -- Yves-Alexis
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