On Tue, 2010-10-26 at 07:27 -0400, Kamil Paral wrote: > I tried to do this test case: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_desktop_login > > It surprised me that neither firstboot nor system-config-users allow > to create users with non-ascii characters in either username or password. > > I would suspect that unix username must be ascii-only, but I would > suspect password to be arbitrary. I tried to add user from root shell > and it works with non-ascii password. You mean a non-root ascii username with a password containing non-ascii characters? > Why do Fedora tools have this limitation? Is this the expected behavior? > I can still validate the test case by using ascii characters relocated > on some keyboard layout (for example Czech layout has different position > for 'Y', 'Z' or '+' than US layout). But I have a feeling this test case > was written with the expectation of using other than just ascii characters. > > Also the initial hint with British Pound character is invalid in > Fedora 14. British Pound is not in ASCII and therefore can't be part > of the password. I'm not aware of any intentional changes restricting entering and using international non-ascii characters in user passwords. If you create the non-ascii password from the console (using passwd command), are you able to enter that password in gdm and/or gnome-screensaver? If that works, I think we need to file a bugs against system-config-users and firstboot. Thanks, James
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