Bug#786481: Please apply patch to jessie

[Michael Biebl]

Am 07.07.2015 um 09:51 schrieb Christian Salzmann:
> Dear package maintainers,
> 
> this bug is really annoying if one runs gnome-shell on e.g. students' pool computers.
> With thousands of users it's mandatory to disable user list.
> Due to this bug, the users may expose their password at login not only to a kibitzer,
> but also to the authentication log files where it gets stored in plain text.
> 
> I applied the mentioned patch to version 3.14.2-3 of gnome-shell which now runs without problems
> on all our desktops for a couple of weeks now.
> 
> Does this bugfix qualify for the next point release?

I think it does.

Since the fix is already in unstable/testing it already got some wider
testing, which is good.


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