On Sun, Dec 17, 2017 at 04:28:36PM +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > On Sat, 2017-12-16 at 09:40 -0600, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: > > After my latest upgrade/reboot, the behavior of lightdm has changed. > > Previously, on fresh boot and lock screen I would be > > presented with a username/password entry dialog with empty username, > > empty password, and focus on username. The new behavior has > > username pre-populated and focus on password. (Is this more likely > > to be lightdm-gtk-greeter or lightdm itself?) > > Yes, lightdm-gtk-greeter changed behavior with 2.0.3: it pre-fills the > username when the screen is locked with the current logged-in user (not sure > of the behavior when multiple users are locked).
Doing this for locked screen seems pretty defensible; I don't log out or boot up cleanly enough to notice the behavior for non-lock-screen cases. > > My understanding is that greeter-hide-users=true is intended to not > > give any indication of the valid users on the machine, whether > > currently/previously logged in or not. (If I am in error here, > > please accept my apologies and close the report.) I think I am > > using an unmodified stock debian config, > > Not sure about upstream stance on this, but I configured the Debian default to > be a bit privacy-conscious and not expose every username just by booting the > system. I'm not overly concerned with the lock screen (afair xscreensaver did > the same thing before we switched to light-locker), but if it's a concern to > you I can propagate this to upstream. I think my main concern is just knowing with some confidence that I should retrain my muscle memory/expectations; I don't think there's a need to forward the issue to upstream just on my behalf. Thanks for the explanation, Ben