reassign 77920 base-config
thanks
Damnit, you should know better..
Now, which characters, exactly?
Joseph Carter wrote:
> Package: boot-floppies
> Version: N/A; reported 2000-11-24
> Severity: important
>
> When asked for a passwd on first boot, certain punctuation characters are
> mangled. This bug should be considered RC because following good security
> practices (ie, feeding damned near line noise in for a passwd) is able to
> give you a system you can't even login to - if this were my first
> experience with Debian I'd go install something else!
>
> The obvious workaround is to enter an alphanumeric passwd and change it
> after login.
>
> The correct solution is to ensure that the string typed by the user is not
> screwed with in any way. This means nothing special should happen to
> characters such as $ # \ % & | etc that may be entered.
>
> -- System Information
> Debian Release: woody
> Architecture: i386
> Kernel: Linux trinity 2.2.18pre15 #1 Wed Nov 8 14:37:38 EST 2000 i686
>
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