Bug 351144

Summary:	Reduce kde login fail retry wait time
Product:	kdm	Reporter:	ned <naught101>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdm bugs tracker <kdm-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Kubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description ned 2015-08-10 02:06:17 UTC

Currently, if I try to log in, and type my password incorrectly, I have to wait about 5 seconds before I can re-enter the password. That happens fairly often for me, because my password is reasonably long, so the wait can be quite annoying.

I appreciate a wait is good defence against brute force, but even a 1 second wait is enough to make a dictionary attack pretty painful, and would be good enough for most purposes. 

Could this wait time be made configurable? I'd also suggest a shorter default, maybe 2 seconds.

On a related note, there is no feedback (visual or otherwise) that the wait period is over, so I probably wait longer than I need to most times. Could the wrong password input be greyed out while the password is being processed, and then cleared after the wait is over?

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Nate Graham 2018-04-16 20:26:28 UTC

KDM is unmaintained and not used in KDE Plasma 5.

SDDM is the login manager used in KDE Plasma 5. If you still have this same issue with SDDM, please file an issue on the SDDM bugtracker (after doing a search for existing issues first!): https://github.com/sddm/sddm/issues/