Security issue - I can bypass the password login with Caps Lock.

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Hi,

Many thanks for your kind time on this matter, I have tried to recreate it and although it was happening consistently over the week prior to getting up the nerve up to make a report, it is now no longer happening.

I am sorry to have wasted your time.

There are two things that happened that may have cleared the bug:

1) There was an OS security update on the day you responded that may have cleared whatever bug it was...?

2) I looked in my User Account and changed the setting regarding if you need a password to log in... To explain this, I had my settings to ask for a password on login and also when waking from sleep, waking the screen etc. When the Caps Lock issue was happening, I was under the impression the settings were as I made them, because when I didn't press Caps Lock it would ask for password on login. But looking in my user account it was set to automatically sign in... Again, I was under the impression that I had set this to ask for password and it did if I didn't press caps-lock while the computer was booting... I deactivated automatic login and the Caps Lock problem went away, I can no longer bay-pass password login. I reactivated automatic sign in to see if it would still ask me to log-in with a password, and it now no longer prompts me for a password on booting up.

Please again accept my sincerest apologies for any concern caused by this matter, I will continue to monitor this to see if either the Caps-Lock issues or the password prompt reappears if I've got it set not to ask for password on login.

Many thanks for your kind time,
Alex.

Hi Alex,

Thanks again taking the time to report the current status and helping to make Ubuntu better.

Based on your comment I will be closing this ticket, but if this problem starts to happen again, please feel free to report it in a new ticket and we will make sure to investigate it! :)

We appreciate your support!