One additional note to Howard Thomson:
- I believe this is yet another character-in-password problem (unfortunately
seems that *ubuntu has quite a few of them whatever version or flavor) and not
the GDM referred here.
I noticed this because in an attempt to secure some passwords we used a
I'm in Belgium but I prefer to handle OSes in English, thus:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ env | grep LANG
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_BE:en
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
So, LANG is English but the locale is Belgian (English).
Unlike the duplicated bug, this is not 6.10 or Feisty Fawn, but rather
Dapper
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: gdm
If an account is defined with a password containing a é character:
- Login on a terminal - Works
- Access through samba - Works
- Access through SSH - Works
- Login through GDM - FAILS
It fails as if the password was entered incorrectly.
It also
