password is not recognizing spaces

[z_diver]

On a Dapper Flight 6 Live CD I ran an espresso install using the default selections throughout. The first character for the user's password was a space.

After rebooting the system I was unable to log in with that password. If I type the password without the space I was able to log in.

This must have to do with espresso because I have verified that the regular installer works fine with spaces(at least in Flight 5 and 6).

Steps to reproduce error:
1. Boot from Flight 6 Live CD
2. Run Espresso Install
3. When asked for a password enter a space as the first character
4. Reboot the comptuer and try to log in, first with, then without the space.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

There are at least two parts to this bug. Firstly, debconf.py eats trailing spaces. Secondly, ubiquity needs to use the escape capability when sending passwords to debconf, in order to preserve whitespace.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

This fixes the debconf part of the bug.

debconf (1.4.72ubuntu3) dapper; urgency=low

  * Backport from trunk (closes: Malone #37934):
    - Strip only trailing newlines from replies in the Python confmodule,
      rather than all leading and trailing whitespace.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Fri, 28 Apr 2006 13:35:42 +0100

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

ubiquity (0.99.70) dapper; urgency=low

  [ Colin Watson ]
  * Ignore errors from locale.setlocale() in timezone component too (closes:
    Malone #41846).
  * Account for preseeding changes in partman-auto 45ubuntu10.
  * Escape passwords when sending them to debconf (closes: Malone #37934).
    Requires debconf (>= 1.4.72) and won't work with cdebconf yet.
  * Automatic update of included source packages: debian-installer-utils
    1.22ubuntu8, partman-auto 45ubuntu10.

  [ Jonathan Riddell ]
  * KDE Frontend:
    - Order methods to match gtkui
    - Some fixes to crashdialogue
    - Don't show blank choices in set_disk_choices
    - Delay auto-partitioning until after final step

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Fri, 28 Apr 2006 21:24:16 +0100