Opening terminal-app does not focus on password prompt

Bug #1605327 reported by fcole90
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This bug affects 4 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Canonical System Image
New
High
Unassigned
Ubuntu Terminal App
Fix Released
High
Florian Boucault
ubuntu-terminal-app (Ubuntu)
Triaged
High
Unassigned
unity8 (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Undecided
Unassigned
unity8-desktop-session (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

When I open the terminal app, I get asked for my password. If I just start typing, the password gets written in the terminal bash and not in the correct popup prompt.

Revision history for this message
Michał Sawicz (saviq) wrote :

That's an internal bug of the terminal.

Changed in unity8 (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
Changed in ubuntu-terminal-app:
importance: Undecided → High
Changed in ubuntu-terminal-app (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
Changed in unity8-desktop-session (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
Changed in ubuntu-terminal-app:
assignee: nobody → Florian Boucault (fboucault)
status: New → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

If it was fixed in upstream ubuntu-terminal-app then the fix still isn't in zesty. Zesty's terminal app is still:

0.7.218ubuntu2 release (main) 2016-10-18

Changed in ubuntu-terminal-app (Ubuntu):
status: Invalid → Triaged
importance: Undecided → High
information type: Public → Public Security
tags: added: unity8-desktop
Changed in canonical-devices-system-image:
importance: Undecided → High
Revision history for this message
Albert Astals Cid (aacid) wrote :

It's on the zesty-overlay

$ LC_ALL=C apt-cache policy ubuntu-terminal-app
ubuntu-terminal-app:
  Installed: 0.7.218+17.04.20170328.3-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 0.7.218+17.04.20170328.3-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 0.7.218+17.04.20170328.3-0ubuntu1 500
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ci-train-ppa-service/stable-phone-overlay/ubuntu zesty/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     0.7.218ubuntu2 500
        500 http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/ubuntu zesty/main amd64 Packages

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