The password cannot be read anyway. And frankly, I think the steps you describe is shooting yourself in the foot. You are deliberately creating a race condition.
If we want to support all such cases where we want guidance to still work even when a user simultaneously uses different tools for the same job, and expects it to work -- that would be impossible. -- user password is not read every time you open an user, results in password overwritten https://launchpad.net/bugs/78374 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs