In Kubuntu Maverick Meerkat Kdesudo does not accept passwords

[Victor Marin]

Binary package hint: kdesudo

Hi,

It seems one can't do administrative tasks in Kubuntu 10.10.

I tried both, passwords which have foreign characters in it; And also it doesn't work if I set-up a password without symbols, with just alphanumeric characters.

Using the Konsole does not help.

Rgds,
Victor

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: kdesudo 3.4.2.3-2ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Oct 10 18:33:02 2010
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 LANG=es_ES.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: kdesudo

[Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but this appears to be a "regular" (non-security) bug. I have unmarked it as a security issue since this bug does not show evidence of allowing attackers to cross privilege boundaries nor directly cause loss of data/privacy. Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.

[Victor Marin (vms368)]

Hello,

I re-installed Kubuntu. This time I arranged a (more than 8) characters password but without symbols, and it works Ok now.

Perhaps, it happened that passwords with symbols do not work in my system; And even despite I then tried to set up a password without symbols, once I had an unvalid password (with symbols), then it did not accept any new passwords.

It seems all (or at least other) KDE distros also have this limitation concerning symbols in the passwords, like in Fedora; In Fedora KDE a window tells that passwords with symbols are not allowed if one tries to set up so.