password restrictions are different in the GUI and on the command line.

Leo Noordhuizen leo.noordhuizen at gmail.com
Mon Jul 18 08:51:33 UTC 2016


Its the same with wifi passwords.... While many routers will accept short
passwords, it is sometimes impossible to log in with such a password . (I
think I remember being blocked by Android for example) So always use at
least 8 characters!

On Mon, 18 Jul 2016 at 09:34 Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> hi,
> Am Sonntag, den 17.07.2016, 18:17 +0200 schrieb Ralf Mardorf:
> > On Sun, 17 Jul 2016 16:40:19 +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> > >
> > > The other thing that can cause confusion is that (sometimes)
> > > lightdm
> > > doesn't have the same country setting for the keyboard as the rest
> > > of
> > > the system.
> > This is a very good hint!
> >
> > This could be avoided by using xorg.conf, e.g.
> >
> > $ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/keyboard.conf
>
> you should probably use /etc/default/keyboard which is the default kbd
> config file and gets sourced during Xorg startup
>
> ciao
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