The main issue is that it's preferred that the app that be checking the passwords not be linked against all the GUI libraries. So it would require rearchtecting the dialog into two parts.
Even if you didn't do that much heavy lifting, could I register this message as an RFE for a login screen that isn't so butt-ugly and primitive? Such a gorgeous desktop, and then that flame thing when I come back from lunch... ugh.
-- Rodolfo J. Paiz rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx