On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 23:35:37 +0200 Merciadri Luca <luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be> wrote:
> Hi, > > I use GNOME. > > I have noticed that if I type some erroneous password to leave the > screensaver mode, GNOME takes ~3 or 4 secs. to tell me that it is > erroneous. If I type the correct password, I am directly sent in my > session. Why does it take so much time to tell me that a password is > erroneous? I can even know if I made a typo by looking at how much time > it takes! Same thing with xscreensaver. I think that a lot of software that asks for a password behaves like this, perhaps to prevent brute-forcing? I'm not sure if brute-forcing is possible on a GUI, though. Celejar -- foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine, an offline RSS/Atom aggregator mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100621174721.6d022ca4.cele...@gmail.com
