From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.0 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020408 Description of problem: usermode, usermode-gtk, xscreensaver, the login prompt all seems to treat differently passwords who happen to contain 8 bit characters. Not only that, but we have three types of characters: - normal (7 bits) characters - 8 bit characters like i, ` etc - 8 bit characters typed using dead keys, like j or k When a password contain one of these characters, some applications refuse to validate it: - some applications work in all cases (login prompt, kdm) - some applications work in the first two cases, but not in the third (xscreensaver) - some applications work only in the first case (usermode-gtk) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. change the root passwd to one of 'fo', 'fi', 'fj' 2. login, or launch redhat-config-something, or xscreensaver 3. watch the inability to validate the password. Additional info:
Of course, the 8 bit characters didn't made it into the bug report: i is 'e ` is `e j is ^e k is "e ... Stelian.
Stelian, this works for me with passwd-0.68 (I tried it with Czech accents like ^c, ^s, etc.) If it's still a problem for you in some recent release, please reopen this bug and write me ASCII codes of letters that caused the problem. thanks, Jindrich
No, it is still not solved on a Fedora Core 2, with usermode-1.70-2 and passwd-0.68-8.1. BTW, the problem is probably *not* in passwd but in usermode-gtk (usermode in console works too). If you want to reproduce: $ system-config-date ... in the usermode-gtk window, type the root password, it works $ su - # passwd New password: é (this is é also known as ascii 0xe9 is ISO8859-1) # $ system-config-date ... in the usermode-gtk, type the one letter password, it will not work.
Ok, this looks like a GTK problem here, because gtk_entry_get_text() replaces the 'é' (é character) by '0' in each its occurence within the password text so I'm tring to fix it.
Maybe it's somehow related to bug 65398.
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