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(Get the code!)
Binary package hint: gdm
If an account is defined with a password containing a "é" character:
- Login on a terminal -> Works
- Access through samba -> Works
- Access through SSH -> Works
- Login through GDM -> FAILS
It fails as if the password was entered incorrectly.
Also if you a password without this character and you add it at the end of the password entry field (so it will be a wrong password entered):
- Login on a terminal -> Fails
- Access through samba -> Fails
- Access through SSH -> Fails
- Login through GDM -> WORKS
So it looks like GDM has having issues processing the "é" character (or skipping it al together).
I've seen a post about something very similar to this but it was deemed as not a GDM bug but rather a PAM bug:
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But I don't think that it is a PAM bug because at least one of the other methods (terminal login, samba access, SSH access) should also have this synthom if the problem was with PAM.
I'm using Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Dapper) x86_64.