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Bug 741833 - special characters in passwords don't work with non en_US keyboard layout
special characters in passwords don't work with non en_US keyboard layout
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gdm
Classification: Core
Component: general
3.14.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: GDM maintainers
GDM maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2014-12-21 12:24 UTC by Udo Rader
Modified: 2016-01-12 22:43 UTC
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Description Udo Rader 2014-12-21 12:24:23 UTC 
when you have a non English keyboard layout, there seems to be an issue with special characters in passwords.

Obviously gdm always uses the en_US keyboard layout and thus you cannot use passwords with special local characters.

see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1164283 
and https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=188509
Comment 1 Michael Catanzaro 2016-01-12 22:38:03 UTC 
You can configure keyboard layouts for the login screen in System Settings -> Region & Language, or with 'localectl'.
Comment 2 Göran Uddeborg 2016-01-12 22:43:13 UTC 
"Invalid" is not a correct resolution.  In 3.14, setting the language in the system settings didn't affect the login screen.

However, in 3.18 the bug is fixed, and the system settings does affect the login screen again.