Re: [SLE] Root password corrupt?

On Thursday 26 May 2005 07:56, Michael James wrote:

Linux always encrypts the passwords,

Actually, technically it doesn't. It encrypts a string of zeros using the password as key. It's more a hashing function than encryption As for the problem, I would ask: is there a y or a z in the password, or some special characters? A common bug is that the keyboard is set to German regardless of what is selected during installation.