Ubuntu
seahorse package

Saved passwords cannot be copied directly to clipboard

Bug #627900 reported by Billie Thompson on 2010-09-01

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #398794: Not possible to copy text strings into the seahorse password dialog. Edit Remove

This bug affects 3 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	seahorse (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Wishlist	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: seahorse

Passwords that have been manually saved in seahorse cannot be retrieved without showing the password. In many cases simply populating the clipboard is the end goal anyway, and directly populating it would remove the problems associated with "shoulder surfing"

Description: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS
Release: 10.04

  Installed: 2.30.0-0ubuntu2
  Candidate: 2.30.0-0ubuntu2
  Version table:
*** 2.30.0-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote on 2010-09-02:

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.

Changed in seahorse (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Wishlist
status:	New → Invalid

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Tom Wieczorek (twz123) wrote on 2013-12-06:

This is not a dupe: This bug describes somehow the opposite of bug #398794, which was about the ability to copy from /paste into the seahorse password prompts when the "show password" checkbox is checked.

This one is about the ability to copy passwords into the clipboard without showing them on screen (that means *without* checking the "show password" checkbox).