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- Severity Low
- Priority Very Low
- Reported Version 1.x Gem+ (beta's)
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Opened by doubletwist - 2010-02-01
Last edited by thanatermesis - 2010-02-05
FS#539 - Gui tools cannot set password beginning with "$"
System: elive 1.9.57
Language: English
Keyboard: US
If root password [and possibly user passwd] is set during HD install with “$” as the first character, elive appears to accept the password. Once the system is installed ‘esu’ and terminal commands like ‘su’ fail to accept the password.
This works perfectly on every other Distro I’ve ever used, so I think it must be specific to the elive installer.
Also, once the system is installed, attempting to change the password using the GUI user manager attempting to set a password beginning with “$” fails with the message “The passwords are not equals, please try again”.
It appears to accept other non-alphanumeric characters. It only fails with “$”
The best solution would be for the password setting to work correctly with “$” as the first character in the passwd.
A less professional but at least acceptable alternative would be to generate an error telling the user not to start a password with “$”. This would be a useful workaround but might appear as a shortcoming relative to other distributions.
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can you please show me your root password (no matters the order of the characters), Im looking for this bug but I don't see any problem with this character, at least right now...
Do you have used the "!" char ?
Well, I'm not going to give you my actual root password. But I tested with
$gogo
And it complained that the passwords did not match [after it had me enter again to verify].
The issue does not happen if I start a password with "!".
well, from installed system is another thing, im just looking on the eliveinstaller right now, i think that you are talking about another tool ?
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Please update the package eliveinstaller-4g and/or elive-scripts to the last version (apt-get update && apt-get install packagename), please check if the passwords problems are all solved, and thanks for your colaboration
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