Bug 140936

Summary:	some characters in passwords appear as two stars
Product:	[Applications] kdepasswd	Reporter:	Yuriy Kozlov <yuriy.kozlov>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Geert Jansen <g.t.jansen>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	echidnaman, finex, mboquien
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

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 ***