Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 10 Sep 2006, Anthony Campbell wrote: > >> I started up my laptop just now (running Debian unstable) and could not >> log in either as root or user. > I suddenly remembered the same thing happened a year or more ago. During > an upgrade the console keyboard got changed (UK to US I suppose) so the > keys were not producing what I thought they were. Once I figured out > which keys produced which symbols I could log in again. > > > An interesting point in choice of passwords which I do not recall having ever seen mentioned anywhere else.
Proposed:- " Choosing a good password ------------------------------------------- Pick one of sufficient length, try to include capitals as well as lower case letters, numerals and punctuation. beware however of using punctuation symbols found on keys which change meaning between different keyboard layouts (eg US or Macintosh vs GB) as this may cause problems if one is logging in from elsewhere or if the keymappings are changed by an update." -- Adrian Midgley -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
