Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 78000
When a password with the B# sign is used it does not recognise it.
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:48:30 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0) Description of problem: When a password with the B# sign is used it does not recognise it. When i try to login the swat with the root password having a B# sign in it, it does not recognise the password. Same if ftping or telneting to the linux box or out to another box. Its like it is send a different symbol instead of the B# sign. If i type a B# sign in the the terminal window I see a B# sign, it seems to be only in the password where the problem is I have the Keyboard set to a UK keyboard. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Use The B# sign in a password 2. 3. Actual Results: access denied Expected Results: access granted Additional info:
Can you explain which key you are pressing to give you a "B#" sign? I suspect that bugzilla is converting the sign so it isn't appearing correctly in this bug report. test: UK keyboard shift+3 (pound)='£', euro='â¬', shift top left key ='¬'
User reports in private email that this is in fact the UK pound sign (shift+3). I can't duplicate this issue on 7.2 or 9
This works fine for me on the current Fedora Core. I think this was most probably some mismatch of character encoding used by passwd and other services in RHL-8.