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Description of problem: root(at last) password bug if you introduce alt gr + key such as # @.... in the password Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-25-1.3 up to date with dnf upgrade (05/12/20016) Fr-FR keyboard at installation Wayland no other system on desktop only Fedora 25 How reproducible: all the time. If you have a root password such as name1name2name3 and if you change it as name1#name2#name3 you cannot log in any more.(work for alt gr kay characters) Instead, if you type name1name2name3, you can log in, but in a terminal su, you will have to use name1#name2#name3 to gain super user access Steps to Reproduce: see above 1. 2. 3. Actual results: not a single passwword for root, cannot log... inconsistency Expected results only a single viable password for root at last. Additional info:
Thanks for report, but basesystem is wrong component here. Description is not clear to me, let's assign it to shadow-utils, but more clear info is probably needed for proper further reassignment.
I suppose there is some kind of problem with the keyboard input in your setup. I do not think there is any issue in the actual password verification component. Can you please on your system create a testing password that produces this buggy behaviour, and then extract the password hash from the /etc/shadow and paste both the password and password hash here?
I've communicated with the reporter over e-mail and I clarified that this is just misunderstanding of the difference of regular account and root account.
I suspect this is a real bug. I had the same situation on a Swiss German keyboard (de_ch). On the initial install I selected the language & keyboard and checked the mapping with a few keys. I then entered the root password that contained an AltGr-key charachter. After installation was complete, it was not possible to logon as root using su command (or authenticate for installing programs via GUI). Thinking I must have messed up, I repeated the install, being extremely careful with the root password entry, but the result was the same. Having found this, I could actually logon with root using su command if I omitted the AltGr-key charachter. I was then able to reset the password via command line entering the desired password with AltGr-key charachter and everything was then sweet, so it seems to be an installer issue.
I would recommend opening a new bug against anaconda then.
OK, the anaconda bug is bug 1403191