Bug#575486: xdm: Input field cursor reveals password length

[Marc-Jano Knopp <pub_br_debian.org@marc-jano.de>]

Package: xdm
Version: 1:1.1.9-1
Severity: normal

After upgrading from xdm 1:1.1.8-6 to 1:1.1.9-1, the password input
field cursor moves a little to the right (maybe a "space" character in
proportional font) for each password character typed, so that it gives
a hint about how long the password is. Although this is not as obvious
as printing asterisks or similar, it should not happen.

I'm not sure if this report belongs to xdm or to xserver-xorg, and/or
xserver-xorg-input-all, since at the same time of upgrading xdm, the
following upgrades took place:

  [UPGRADE] xserver-xorg 1:7.5+3 -> 1:7.5+5
  [UPGRADE] xserver-xorg-input-all 1:7.5+3 -> 1:7.5+5

As the symptom shows in xdm, I'm reporting it for this package.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable'), (25, 'experimental'), (12, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-15, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO-8859-15 (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages xdm depends on:
ii  cpp                           4:4.4.2-3  The GNU C preprocessor (cpp)
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.28     Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                         2.10.2-6   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libpam0g                      1.1.1-2    Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libselinux1                   2.0.89-4   SELinux runtime shared libraries
ii  libx11-6                      2:1.3.3-2  X11 client-side library
ii  libxau6                       1:1.0.5-2  X11 authorisation library
ii  libxaw7                       2:1.0.7-1  X11 Athena Widget library
ii  libxdmcp6                     1:1.0.3-2  X11 Display Manager Control Protoc
ii  libxext6                      2:1.1.1-3  X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxft2                       2.1.14-2   FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii  libxinerama1                  2:1.1-3    X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxmu6                       2:1.0.5-1  X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii  libxpm4                       1:3.5.8-1  X11 pixmap library
ii  libxrender1                   1:0.9.5-2  X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  libxt6                        1:1.0.7-1  X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  lsb-base                      3.2-23     Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  procps                        1:3.2.8-8  /proc file system utilities
ii  x11-common                    1:7.5+5    X Window System (X.Org) infrastruc
ii  x11-utils                     7.5+3      X11 utilities
ii  x11-xserver-utils             7.5+1      X server utilities
ii  xbase-clients                 1:7.5+5    miscellaneous X clients - metapack

xdm recommends no packages.

xdm suggests no packages.

-- debconf information:
* shared/default-x-display-manager: xdm
  xdm/stop_running_server_with_children: false
  xdm/daemon_name: /usr/bin/xdm