Bug 356632

Summary:	ksshaskpass showing password field while asking for username
Product:	[Applications] ksshaskpass	Reporter:	Martin Kostolný <clearmartin>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Jeremy Whiting <jpwhiting>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	aspotashev, csanchezredondo, gagbobada, mark.duncan85, mk.mateng, schwarzer
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	5.5.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Arch Linux
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	ksshaskpass username query dialog with password field

Description Martin Kostolný 2015-12-13 22:24:56 UTC

When ksshaskpass is invoked for the first time for given hostname it asks for username but shows a password field and "Remember password" checkbox. After inserting some text clicking OK it asks for password for previously inserted username.

This is very misleading. I've inserted password in the first dialog, checked "Remember password" and then was surprised by the second password dialog and on top of that was unable to change username for given hostname due to checked "Remember password" checkbox (another issue fixed by going to KWalletManager 15.08 and remove given username).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Clean up your github.com ksshaskpass usernames and password in kwalletmanager
2. Git push in some project hosted on github

Actual Results:  
Username query dialog opens with password field

Expected Results:  
Username query dialog opens but should contain regular text field for username and maybe also password field and remember password checkbox.

I have Plasma 5.5.0, KF 5.16, KDE Applications 15.08.03, Qt 5.5.1

Comment 1 Martin Kostolný 2015-12-13 22:26:42 UTC

Created attachment 96050 [details]
ksshaskpass username query dialog with password field

Comment 2 Carlos 2016-05-21 18:29:30 UTC

The same happens to me. I'm on plasma 5.6.3, on openSUSE Tumbleweed.

Comment 3 Gerry Agbobada 2017-10-02 15:54:11 UTC

This is still happening with ksshaskpass-5.10.5-1.fc27.x86_64

Comment 4 Christoph Feck 2019-03-31 08:21:46 UTC

It is not possible. The ssh application calls the password UI helper ksshaskpass twice, once for the username, once for the password.

You would need to use a GUI ssh application to be able to fix it.

Comment 5 Mark Duncan 2019-10-17 17:07:13 UTC

Christoph, why would this not be possible to fix?  Certainly you must agree that prompting for a password and using a password input field is not the correct way to handle a request for a username.  Why can't the input type be changed based on if a username or password is being prompted for?

Comment 6 Frederik Schwarzer 2022-07-03 19:55:43 UTC

The windows says "Password", so I enter my password ... then the next window shows my password in plain text.

For me this is a bug.

Comment 7 michaelk83 2025-10-30 09:15:48 UTC

(In reply to Christoph Feck from comment #4)
> It is not possible. The ssh application calls the password UI helper
> ksshaskpass twice, once for the username, once for the password.
> 
> You would need to use a GUI ssh application to be able to fix it.

ksshaskpass should be able to accept a parameter re what is being requested, and adjust its display. This would still depend on the client apps using that parameter, but the main client app is the SSH client, so that can at least be fixed there.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 343562 ***