Hello, Unfortunately the suggested workaround does NOT work. What happens when I enter four backslashes (\\\\) ?
I am prompted to reenter the right password, and the four backslashes are shown now as two backslashes \\ in the text-box to enter the password. Then, at some point the scape character must have been translated, but not in the point that can be useful for a workaround. Even if this workaround could work, I'd rather suggest to apply a real patch for this, because a end-user without knowledge of programming/computers should not be aware of what is a scape character or why his password cannot contain a backslash. On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 19:20, Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <mathieu...@gmail.com > wrote: > Thanks for filing this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. > > This indeed seems to be a potential issue (although I haven't reproduced > it yet), which needs to be double-checked and addressed. This would be > simply caused by character escapes to be applied to entering password > (possibly so you can enter special characters in passwords...). > > As a workaround, please see if you can double the backslashes (\) as such: > asdkfahgkj43534k754kg5 ?\\\\|//**645645@@ > > Which should translate to just two backslashes before the pipe > character, since "\\" escapes to a single "\". > > Thanks in advance! > > ** Changed in: network-manager (Ubuntu) > Status: New => Incomplete > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/701566 > > Title: > Network manager modify the passwords of wireless networks before > storing them > > Status in “network-manager” package in Ubuntu: > Incomplete > > Bug description: > Binary package hint: network-manager > > Network Manager does not stores the passwords of wireless networks > correctly in the keyring. > > Just create a wireless network and connect successfully to it, with > the password > > asdkfahgkj43534k754kg5 ?\\|//**645645@@ > > And Network manager will store > > asdkfahgkj43534k754kg5 ?\|//**645645@@ > > instead. Notice that only one character has been supressed (slash \) > > Then, next time you boot up and try to connect to the wireless network > you can't simply because the password stored in the keyring is wrong. > > Don't really know if this is an issue of keyring or Network Manager. > > Using Ubuntu 10.10 Kernel 2.6.35-24-server, NetworkManager Applet 0.8.1, > NetworkManager 0.81 > > To unsubscribe from this bug, go to: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/701566/+subscribe > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/701566 Title: Network manager modify the passwords of wireless networks before storing them -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
