Bug 20038 – GDM doesn't work with accentued passwords

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED CANTFIX

[Description Brice Arnould (un_brice) 2003-04-27 07:10:06 UTC]

When I try to login from gdm, it say me that i've typed an incorrect password. I've tried 
ten times, with allways the same error. I've also tried to type my password in the login 
box, to see if my keyboard was well configured, it was well configured. But GDM still 
won't work. 
Then I've tried to change my password, suppressing it accents, and that worked. 
In the log files, there was only "authentification failure". As my password work in a 
console and in other X applications, i think that the problem is from gdm, but in this 
case that's strange that noone had seen it. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Set a password with accents 
2.Try to login with gdm 
Actual Results:  
GDM say me that the password is bad 

Expected Results:  
It should start KDE as my user

[Comment 1 Markus Bertheau (RETIRED) 2003-04-27 07:21:46 UTC]

This is probably because GDM sends the password utf-8 encoded whereas your password is stored encoded in the character set belonging to your non-utf-8 locale, that you have set. This is an upstream bug. For now, use passwords without accented characters or another login manager.

[Comment 2 foser (RETIRED) 2003-05-13 19:33:15 UTC]

not our problem as markus pointed out

[Comment 3 foser (RETIRED) 2003-09-28 05:27:21 UTC]

reclose