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Re: Passwords on Linux systems(for all flavors)

from [Glynn Clements] Network Security [Permanent Link]
Subject: Re: Passwords on Linux systems(for all flavors)
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 20:35:43 +0100 

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 <glynn@gclements.plus.com>
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