Ubuntu
gdm package

gdm does not accept special characters

Bug #439577 reported by Benjamin Drung
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gdm (Ubuntu)
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Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gdm

gdm does not display the long user name if it contains the special character "&".

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Sep 30 21:18:24 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: gdm 2.28.0-0ubuntu8
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.36-generic
SourcePackage: gdm
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic x86_64

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Benjamin Drung (bdrung) wrote :
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for your bug report. The issue is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug the to the people writting the software (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME)

Changed in gdm (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs)
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Triaged
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Victor Vargas (kamus) wrote :

Additionally to this issue, according to adduser man said that: "You can't use special characters, must use only letters, numbers, points,etc, just like said standard IEEE 1003.1-2001. You only can add a "$" to end of username for samba accounts"

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Benjamin Drung (bdrung) wrote :

@Karmus: This applies to the "short" user name. GDM shows the "long" user name.

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