XDM elides whitespace in passwords
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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xdm (Ubuntu) |
Expired
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I installed the x86 server version of 10.4 LTS, but wanted a lightweight graphical environment, so I also installed LXDE and XDM. The system was connected to the internet through my local network and edge firewall, so I also selected to have updates applied during installation. During the setup I assigned passwords for both the root and normal user. Those passwords had whitespace (specifically, ASCII 0x20) in them.
When setup completed and the system booted into graphical mode, I couldn't login to either the normal nor root account until I switched to an alternate text console, logged in and changed the password so there was no whitespace. After changing the password of the normal user, I was able to switch back to graphical mode and login to the normal user account using the new password.
While in text mode, I had also gone into aptitude and applied all updates available for all installed packages and checked for any broken packages (there weren't any). I did try doing a graphical login after applying all available updates. It wasn't until I used a password without whitespace that login was successful.
Have you tried to reproduce this issue using latest release included in Ubuntu Maverick?