On 2020-06-29 13:41, Tim via users wrote: > On Sun, 2020-06-28 at 21:35 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: >> You can either start typing the password right away or press ESC to >> get the shield up and focus the password field. > I'd advise against that (typing passwords straight away), too. > > If you can't see what you're typing into, you might not be typing into > what you think you are. It might not be a locked screen, it could > simply be a black screen and you're typing your password into something > that might steal it. > > Get the screen up before you start typing passwords. > Don't you think that if someone has managed to infiltrate your system to put up a blank screen, password stealing program, it is already too late? :-) :-) And, if they could do that, wouldn't they put up a look alike screen saver? :-) -- The key to getting good answers is to ask good questions. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
