No, the only characters I used where

   * capital letters
   * non-capital letters
   * numbers
   * one special character: '_'

Altogether, the password had 10 characters.

Best regards

Ingo

On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 12:15 +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> Thank you for your bug report. Could you try to figure if there is some
> special char creating the issue?
> 
> ** Changed in: gdm (Ubuntu)
>    Importance: Undecided => Medium
>      Assignee: (unassigned) => Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs)
>        Status: New => Incomplete
> 
> --
> GDM does not accept password, but remote and command line accept it
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/241343
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
> 
> Status in “gdm” source package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
> 
> Bug description:
> I changed my password to a more secure password (10 Characters with numbers, 
> capital and special characters like '!' and '_').
> 
> After logging out, I could not any longer log into my computer via gdm.
> 
> However, I could login remotely via ssh and also via command-line 
> (CTRL-ALT-F1).
> 
> When I changed back to my old less secure password, I could again log in via 
> gdm. I tried once again the more secure password, but again login via gdm 
> failed.
> 
> This appears to me as a bug, which I did not find on the web. I use Ubuntu 
> 8.04, 64-bit version with gnome as Windows-manager.
> 
> Regards
> 
> -diokan-

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