Bug 396191

Summary: Screen locker does not communicate kcheckpass failure
Product: [Unmaintained] kscreenlocker Reporter: Kai Uwe Broulik <kde>
Component: greeterAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED    
Severity: normal CC: bshah, nate, null
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
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Description Kai Uwe Broulik 2018-07-05 09:35:06 UTC 
When the underlying authentication service breaks (e.g. network connection loss for ldap login), there is no indication to the user other than "Unlocking failed".

Plasma 4's lock screen would at least show "Authentication failed because the underlying service isn't working correctly" (or something like this) so you at least knew you weren't mistyping your password 10 times in a row.

In ConvPutAuthError it probably should emit error with a message instead of just emitting failed
Comment 1 Unknown 2020-12-31 10:02:09 UTC 
Any progress on this?
Comment 2 Nate Graham 2022-11-03 16:24:43 UTC 
kcheckpass support was removed a few releases ago; closing.