Loginscreen shows user password

[drossone]

Hello,

I'm not clear if this issue is related to #216, but I'd consider it as really bad.

When I move the mouse over the empty locale selection of the login screen, a "mouse over" text opens which shows the clear password selected user; see attached screen shots. Once a language is selected, everything is fine.

Adding a new user (who wasn't logged in) does not show the behaviour.

I have reported this to the linux mint bug list https://bugs.launchpad.net/linuxmint/+bug/1720278 because I really don't know what the root cause is.

Cheers,

Dirk

Distributor ID: LinuxMint
Description: Linux Mint 18.1 Serena
Release: 18.1
Codename: serena
cinnamon
Linux 4.8.0-58-generic #63~16.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Mon Jun 26 18:08:51 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[drossone]

A colleague got an important point: What ever triggers this behavior, should take place before the password is hashed, so when the password is set up.

Question: Do internet browsers use the $LANG or $MDM_LANG environment variable to show web sites the preferred language (or then the password)?

[drossone]

OK, I also could find my plain password in the language settings

[drossone]

screenshot of my language settings

[xenopeek]

How do you get the login window to not already have a language selected for existing users? As you say this issue doesn't affect new users. I can't reproduce your steps because whatever I've tried, there always is already a language selected for my user.