Terminal should not use assistive technologies

Bug #1307386 reported by Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Ubuntu Terminal App
Fix Released
High
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Bug Description

In system settings turn on autocorrect
Start terminal
type "sudo ping localhost"
Type the password "phablet" - observe that it appears in clear text in the terminal.

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Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey) wrote :
summary: - Terminal should not capitalise first letter
+ Terminal should not use assistive technologies
description: updated
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Victor Thompson (vthompson) wrote :

This is related to an existing bug for auto-capitalization [1]. Perhaps this bug should only describe the password in clear text issue.

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-terminal-app/+bug/1302870

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Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey) wrote :

Thanks Victor, I missed that bug. Modified this one as you suggested.

description: updated
Changed in ubuntu-terminal-app:
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Medium
Changed in ubuntu-terminal-app:
importance: Medium → High
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Chad Miller (cmiller) wrote :

Can we be more specific than "assistive technologies"? I do not think mean the terminal should not magnify or speak for blind people.

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Ubuntu Phone Apps Jenkins Bot (ubuntu-phone-apps-jenkins-bot) wrote :

Fix committed into lp:ubuntu-terminal-app at revision 141, scheduled for release in ubuntu-terminal-app, milestone alpha-1

Changed in ubuntu-terminal-app:
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
Changed in ubuntu-terminal-app:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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