feisty: cannot unlock KDE session - need to change Z for Y in passwd

Arsya Pandji arsya.linux at gmail.com
Tue Apr 10 06:28:26 UTC 2007


Perhaps it's the keyboard configuration type. Because i think there's a
different layout between us and europe (and other country) keyboard.

regards,
Arsya


On 4/9/07, Matthias Bodenbinder <matthias at bodenbinder.de> wrote:
>
> Matthew Flaschen schrieb:
> > Matthias Bodenbinder wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> after upgrading from ubuntu 6.10 to 7.04 beta my wife can not unlock
> her KDE
> >> session anymore. Login in to KDE is just fine, but unlocking a KDE
> sessnion is
> >> not working. Her passwd contains a "z". If she types a "y" instead, the
> >> unlocking works!
> >>
> >> And it is not just unlocking the session. Even changing the password
> with KDE
> >> tools ("About Me" -> Change Passwd) requires her to type "y" instead of
> "z".
> >>
> >> It looks like the KDE tools are run with a different keyboard layout.
> How can I
> >> change that?
> >
> > Can you check whether it applies to other KDE programs, like Konqueror?
> >
> > Matt Flaschen
> >
>
> Hi Matt,
>
> other KDE apps seem not to be effected. I type a "Z" and I get a "Z". But
> as
> soon as I work with passwords in KDE it is getting weird.
>
> Example:
> I create a new user with KDE tools. I set the password to "zzz". When I
> login to
> that user via ssh, the password is "zzz". But when I login to KDE (kdm),
> the
> pasword is "yyy".
>
> Matthias
>
>
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