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feisty-gdm-themes package

gdm: not enough space for userid when using Kerberos

Bug #13748 reported by Evan Champion
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
feisty-gdm-themes (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Medium
Ubuntu Artwork Team

Bug Description

I installed the Kerberos clients and pam-krb5 and it all works great, but
switching to Kerberos has caused a user interface problem. The password prompt
on gdm has changed from "Password for user" to "Password for user@realm", which
is too big for the available space in my case and causes the text to wrap.
There isn't enough room to wrap either, and so the "user@realm" gets hidden
behind the password box. I imagine this would also happen if the user has a
long userid.

This is with hoary fully updated as of yesterday. This is one of those things
that is probably easier to see than to explain so I took a screenshot, but I
don't know how to attach a file so I will mail it to <email address hidden> directly,
hope that is ok.

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Evan Champion (evanandjill) wrote :

Created an attachment (id=1583)
picture showing problem

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Jeff, is that an artwork issue ?

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Jeff Waugh (jdub) wrote :

Yep, reassigning (sorry, thought it was u-a when it came in). :-)

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

*** Bug 16893 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

*** Bug 22406 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) wrote :

couple of duplicates already, so this is pretty much confirmed

Changed in ubuntu-artwork:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote :

This should be reevaluated for Feisty.

Changed in ubuntu-artwork:
assignee: jdub → ubuntu-art
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Troy James Sobotka (troy-sobotka) wrote :

Need a technique to manually force this to happen. I can't fix it without a cmd line equivalent way to see the results.

Devs? Help please.

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rusivi2 (rusivi2-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Thank you for posting this bug.

Does this issue occur in Lucid?

Changed in feisty-gdm-themes (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
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Thomas Hotz (thotz-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Closing because of no response.

Changed in feisty-gdm-themes (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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