default encoding problem ?

[dave s]

On Monday 19 Dec 2005 17:29, Carl wrote:
> On Sunday 18 December 2005 1:44 pm, dave s wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have to login to swat to setup my smb.conf file by accessing
> > http://localhost:901. To access swat a login box pops up from firefox, or
> > konqueror asking for my root password.
> >
> > My password contains some wierd & wonderfull characters. It is not
> > accepted as valid by this authorisation box even though it works fine for
> > adept or sudo in xterm. However swat does accept it if I change it to a
> > simple character string.
> >
> > I suspect it has something to do with kongueror > fonts > default
> > encodeing and tried utf8 but still no go.
> >
> > Does anyone have any idea what i should change default encoding to ? or
> > where else the problem may be ?
> >
> > cheers
> >
> > Dave
> >
> > PS I have checked my keyboard & language settings via KDE controll center
>
> Just to clarify, SWAT wants the root password which is not enabled by
> default in Ubuntu.  The password you use for sudo (your user password) will
> not work for SWAT.
>
> To enable the root password, you would need to:
> $ sudo su
> # passwd
>
> This might be what is causing you trouble rather than any odd characters.
>
> Carl

Thanks for replying, sorry its taken me a time to get back to you, pressure of 
work + Xmas ... :)

I am with you on what you say and have enabled a root password but it does 
seem to be a character problem ...

Dave