[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#352668: Multibyte characters give weird behavioud on to login prompt

[Vincent Lönngren]

Package: login
Version: 1:4.0.14-4
Severity: minor
Tags: l10n

Typing in a multibyte character produces no output, but will make it impossible to use 
backspace for deletion. It's not a big problem since these characters should not be used in 
user names or passwords anyway, but they could be handled more gracefully. I've only tried 
of few readily available multibyte characters, there may be exceptions. This was done on a 
framebuffer console on a system with console-tools.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15
Locale: LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=sv_SE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages login depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.3.5-13   GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libpam-modules                0.79-3     Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii  libpam-runtime                0.79-3     Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii  libpam0g                      0.79-3     Pluggable Authentication Modules l

login recommends no packages.

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