Server suspends to tty1 - showing password in clear text!!!

[frank_claessen]

Running Zentyal 2.0-1

After a short period of inactivity at the graphical display - looking at the dashbord f.e. - the screen goes black and shows tty1. At the server login line the password is shown in clear text.

Switching back with CTRL-ALT-F7 show a black screen and every keyboard button touched only delivers gibberish on the screen. System has to be restarted, noting else works.

In the forum the same problem can be found by user mac9 while beta-testing.

[frank_claessen]

After having experienced this several times it appears that the whole keyboard buffers is being emptied. Even a message like this one shows up on the screen.

I a setting the priority of this bug to high and the severity to major since it compromises the security of the server showing the password of the logged in user, normally speaking the administrator.

Cheers Frank

[jacalvo@…]

This is a bug with slim, the session manager included, not in the zentyal software. In the next installer (2.0-3), that will be released very soon, we are going to include another replacement by default: lxdm.

You can switch it with:

sudo apt-get install lxdm sudo apt-get remove slim

[jacalvo@…]

Sorry the commands are not too clear in my previous comment

sudo apt-get install lxdm
sudo apt-get remove slim