Description of problem: When you install choose password as "123123" then after installation try to login as root it will say authentication failed. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: everytime Steps to Reproduce: 1. install Pheobe 2. choose normal French as only lang 3. Choose normal French as keyboard (since it has (accented 'e' maped to 2 in keyboard) 4. Set root password to "123123" 5. Finish installation 6. Try to login from GDM using root account 7. Try to login from VC using root account Actual results: from GDM, you won't be able to login but from VC you can log in. Expected results: Where ever, you should be able to log in. Additional info: French Keyboard mapping is different from VC and X. for example after you log into console and type 123 then it would look like &{" but after you log into X then type 123 it will look like &e(with accent)"
Duplicate of bug 74264. The original analysis there is probably wrong (and nobody seems to care ;-), but the point is that keymaps must be loaded with loadkeys -u ^^^^^^^^^^^ when UTF-* is used
Did you do 123123 on the keyboard or shifted of each number key (shift-1 -> 1 on a french keyboard layout)?
I was trying to get '&e(accented)"' which is 123 in keyboard... so no shift
The only sensible thing to do with passwords is enforce them as ascii. The passwd file has no defined encoding so there's no way to keep consistency otherwise. Enforced in CVS
anaconda-8.0.94-0.20030130230242 no longer allows the input of non-ASCII characters in passwords. Will check user creation in firstboot as well, as that would be affected by the same issue.