Bug#247284: gdm: Graphical greeter displays broken for special characters in pw_name

[Stephan A Suerken]

Package: gdm
Version: 2.4.4.7-1
Severity: normal

Hi,

(at least) with this 2 user setup

guest (uid=1500, pw_name="Guest Account")
absurd (uid=1000, pw_name="Sürken")

[ It's an latin1-"ü", afaics ;) ]

the graphical greeter shows the passwd infomation for "guest" for user
"absurd". It works alright when I delete the special character from
passwd.

Thanks,

Stephan
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (1002, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.22-custom-adkm-manwe
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro

Versions of packages gdm depends on:
ii  adduser                   3.52           Add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf                   1.4.25         Debian configuration management sy
ii  dpkg                      1.10.21        Package maintenance system for Deb
ii  fvwm [x-window-manager]   2.5.10-5       F(?) Virtual Window Manager, versi
ii  gnome-session             2.4.2-5        The GNOME 2 Session Manager
ii  gnome-terminal [x-termina 2.4.2-7        The GNOME 2 terminal emulator appl
ii  libart-2.0-2              2.3.16-5       Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0               1.4.1-1        The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0              2.4.3-1        Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0            2.4.3-2        The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                     2.3.2.ds1-12   GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgconf2-4               2.4.0.1-4      GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0               1:2.0.1-13     Library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.2.3-1        The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-0               2.4.0-11       The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0         2.4.0-3        A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0              2.4.0.1-12     The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0            2.4.1-5        The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgnomevfs2-common       2.4.1-5        The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgsf-1                  1.8.2-6        Structured File Library - runtime 
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.2.4-5        The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                   4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  liborbit2                 1:2.8.3-2      libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpam-modules            0.76-20        Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii  libpam-runtime            0.76-20        Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii  libpam0g                  0.76-20        Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpango1.0-0             1.2.5-4        Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                  1.7-4          lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  librsvg2-2                2.5.0-2        SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  libsm6                    4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 X Window System Session Management
ii  libwrap0                  7.6.dbs-3      Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii  libx11-6                  4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxext6                  4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii  libxml2                   2.6.9-2        GNOME XML library
ii  xlibs                     4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 X Window System client libraries m
ii  xterm [x-terminal-emulato 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 X terminal emulator
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.1-5      compression library - runtime

-- debconf information:
  gdm/daemon_name: /usr/bin/gdm
* shared/default-x-display-manager: gdm