[kde] [Bug 485423] Option to recover forgotten password on the login screen

[Nate Graham]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=485423

Nate Graham <nate at kde.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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            Summary|[Feature Request]           |Option to recover forgotten
                   |[Discussion]                |password on the login
                   |Remember/change password    |screen
                 CC|                            |nate at kde.org
             Status|REPORTED                    |CONFIRMED
     Ever confirmed|0                           |1

--- Comment #1 from Nate Graham <nate at kde.org> ---
Something like this is definitely a good idea because normal people absolutely
forget their system passwords and panic; I had to help my sister through this
on her Mac just a few months ago--where thankfully it was very easy due to a
built-in troubleshooting recovery partition. That's what I'd prefer for us too,
though that would be a distro thing to implement. Having some kind of password
recovery feature in SDDM too would make sense, but this is something we can't
really feasibly do until SDDM is in KDE so we can integrate it better into
Plasma. Marking as a subtask/blocker of Bug 485450.

In addition, we'd need to implement a way for users to set up their recovery
questions ahead of time too--probably in the installer right when they create
their user account. So we'd need distro coordination there as well.

As an aside, for the kinds of users you're talking about, auto-login with an
empty password may be the way to go. People like this are typically in a home
setting where there are no real security concerns.

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