Misspelled password

[Robert Heller]

At Sat, 1 Apr 2023 14:08:18 -0400 noloader at gmail.com, "Ubuntu user technical support,? not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> On Sat, Apr 1, 2023 at 1:32 PM Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users
> <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > [...]
> > For a new Xubuntu install, English language, German keyboard, by default
> > I get two passwords for the same user ;), in my case the culprit is
> > that by default the assumed keyboard layout for the login greeter, is
> > different to the assumed keyboard layout for a Xfce session. This can be
> > fixed, but doesn't matter now.
> 
> This sounds very wrong. Please file a bug report somewhere. If you
> don't file a bug report, then nothing gets fixed because devs don't
> know there is trouble.
> 
> A digested password will produce consistent results if the character
> set is UTF-8 and the digest algorithm is the same. UTF-8 is portable
> across all OSes. Something is sideways if two different programs
> produce different results for the same password.

I suspect that because the *keyboard* layouts are different and Ralf is using
a "special" key that is mapped differently to different keys. It is probably
not really two different passwords, just different physical keys to produce
the same key-code. (Yes, there is a bug, just at a different place -- the
keyboard layout really should NOT be changing between the Xfce session and the
login greeter. Either the login greeter has a bug, or Xfce has a bug.)

And yes, he needs to report this and it should be fixed.

> 
> Jeff
> 

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