I can type & and @ character in graphical login screen. If the original
reported was talking about the terminal I think this bug won't be fixed.
I'm closing this bug.
** Changed in: shadow (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Fix Released
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login does not accept @ (at) and # (hash) characters
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I'm not clear why you think this is a problem. Traditionally, the
default erase and kill characters on Unix were # and @ respectively.
That's because they were available when other keys, like backspace, may
not be. They also used to be echoed, e.g. "ed /etv#c/passwd" was what
would appear on the
