Ubuntu
gdm package

  1. Bug #70901
  2. Comment #6

Comment 6 for bug 70901

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Pedro Menezes (pedro-menezes) wrote :

One additional note to Howard Thomson:
- I believe this is yet another character-in-password problem (unfortunately seems that *ubuntu has quite a few of them whatever version or flavor) and not the GDM referred here.

I noticed this because in an attempt to secure some passwords we used a random password generator and one of the password had the '#' char.

The login and password worked fine through a SSH session (by direct SSH login and by doing SU from another user on SSH), also worked with a GDM login, BUT when using the console login it failed !!!

After troubleshooting it a bit (by typing the login in the username prompt :)) I noticed that on the console (tty1 to tty6) the '#' actually works as a backspace, so it actually deletes the previous character.

To sum it up. Char '#' on password (or username for that matter)
SSH -> Works
GDM -> Works
Terminal (console) -> Doesn't work (works as backspace)

As such I believe that this another problem altogether, and in a different package, so I would appreciate if you report it (possibly getty/mgetty or something deeper).