Bug 140936 - some characters in passwords appear as two stars
Summary: some characters in passwords appear as two stars
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 85333
Alias: None
Product: kdepasswd
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Ubuntu Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Geert Jansen
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Reported: 2007-01-31 05:44 UTC by Yuriy Kozlov
Modified: 2009-04-21 19:38 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description Yuriy Kozlov 2007-01-31 05:44:58 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.5)
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages
OS:                Linux

Some characters, generally non-english ones, as well as " in some keyboard variants appear as two stars/bullets/asterixes in password dialogs.  This is seen in kdesu, the screensaver unlock dialog, and in the kdm logon screen.

Two cases when this happens are with a russian keyboard layout and with a layout with dead keys.

According to https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kdebase/+bug/54564 until KDE 3.5.6, these passwords were not accepted at all.

This is also filed here: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kdelibs/+bug/82275
Comment 1 Yuriy Kozlov 2007-01-31 05:45:33 UTC 
This bug does not appear in an authorization dialog for fish:/.
Comment 2 Médéric Boquien 2008-11-09 00:50:47 UTC 
Hello,

Can you still reproduce the bug with the latest KDE 4 release?

Thanks.
Comment 3 FiNeX 2008-12-26 15:44:09 UTC 
@Yuriy: are you able to reproduce this bug with KDE 4, for example 4.2 beta2 ?

thanks
Comment 4 Jonathan Thomas 2009-04-21 19:38:49 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 85333 ***