My password typed in during the install was not recognized when logging in to the system after completed installation.
I presumed that the installation request for the new password string had failed to pass the string unaltered to the passwd program, or its equivalent. I recovered the install by booting from the live-cd, mounting the root f/s, removing the password field from /etc/shadow, running /bin/passwd to assign my password, and then rebooting and successfully logging in to both tty1/console and the KDM/X console. Due to the seeding process in generating a new encrypted password, it is not possible to check what the string might be that the install process actually encrypted as the initial password stored in /etc/shadow, at least not without providing a custom /bin/passwd in the install packages. I checked 'stty -a' on tty1, and the '#' character is not used as an edit character. -- GDM doesn't allow login if password contains "é" character https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/70901 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
