Re: Passwords on Linux systems(for all flavors)
Glynn Clements <[email protected]>
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Dwayne Ghant wrote: > What about unicode charectors in passwords. A password is a string of bytes, not characters. As I wrote previously: > However, if a password contains any control characters or non-ASCII > (8-bit) characters, there may be problems entering it in certain > contexts. If a password contains non-ASCII characters, the encoding used when entering a password must match the encoding which was used when the password was set. E.g. if you set your password from a terminal which uses ISO-8859-1, then try to enter it in a GDM dialog which uses UTF-8, the password won't be recognised. -- Glynn Clements <[email protected]>