I included emoji in my password and now I can't log in to my Account on Yosemite
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I included emoji in my password and now I can't log in to my Account on Yosemite
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Re: I included emoji in my password and now I can't log in to my Account on Yosemite
#2I have had something similar bite me, although mine was easily fixed. I used swedish (åäö) characters for my disk encryption password. This worked fine, until I did a dist-upgrade and had my boot keyboard reset to US QWERTY (using a custom swedish version of capewell-dvorak).
The solution for me was to stick on LTS distros.
Re: I included emoji in my password and now I can't log in to my Account on Yosemite
#3I have had something similar bite me, although mine was easily fixed. I used swedish (åäö) characters for my disk encryption password. This worked fine, until I did a dist-upgrade and had my boot keyboard reset to US QWERTY (using a custom swedish version of capewell-dvorak). The solution for me was to stick on LTS distros.
You can still write åäö with the numpad if your keyboard has one.
Alt + 134 = å
Re: I included emoji in my password and now I can't log in to my Account on Yosemite
#4A client once had an issue where his account got compromised and everything pointed to having his actual login details leaked.
His password was something like his username plus an assortment of random characters. It turned out that the system his account was on basically ignored everything after the 8th character, so that you were able to login with the username as the password.
Also, during the early days of inline password generators, there were cases where the suggested password was incompatible with the associated system.
Re: I included emoji in my password and now I can't log in to my Account on Yosemite
#5I have had something similar bite me, although mine was easily fixed. I used swedish (åäö) characters for my disk encryption password. This worked fine, until I did a dist-upgrade and had my boot keyboard reset to US QWERTY (using a custom swedish version of capewell-dvorak). The solution for me was to stick on LTS distros.
You can still write åäö with the numpad if your keyboard has one. Alt + 134 = å
I tried that. The LUKS password screen did not support it.
Re: I included emoji in my password and now I can't log in to my Account on Yosemite
#6Was really surprised to see such a great solution and walkthrough. I had no idea Mac's had "unicode text input" software on default machines. I wonder why Window's hasn't upgraded charmap.exe over the years?
Ok and hear me out on this: a startup idea based on emoji passwords that encodes/decodes emojis into their hex/binary equivalent. takers?
Re: I included emoji in my password and now I can't log in to my Account on Yosemite
#7Was really surprised to see such a great solution and walkthrough. I had no idea Mac's had "unicode text input" software on default machines. I wonder why Window's hasn't upgraded charmap.exe over the years? Ok and hear me out on this: a startup idea based on emoji passwords that encodes/decodes emojis into their hex/binary equivalent. takers?
> a startup idea based on emoji passwords that encodes/decodes
> emojis into their hex/binary equivalent.
Re: I included emoji in my password and now I can't log in to my Account on Yosemite
#8I had problems when I set my admin username on my windows laptop to when setting it up for the first time. It wouldn't let me do things which required admin, iirc.
Re: I included emoji in my password and now I can't log in to my Account on Yosemite
#9I have had something similar bite me, although mine was easily fixed. I used swedish (åäö) characters for my disk encryption password. This worked fine, until I did a dist-upgrade and had my boot keyboard reset to US QWERTY (using a custom swedish version of capewell-dvorak). The solution for me was to stick on LTS distros.
A quote from the Slackware README_CTYPT.txt
"NOTE: if you use a non-US keyboard and need to enter a passphrase during boot, this may be problematic if the keyboard mapping is US while Slackware runs from the initrd filesystem. In this case, add support for your keyboard to the initrd image using this additional parameter to the 'mkinitrd' command above: "-l ". The string is the same as the one you select in the installer when your keyboard is non-US. Example for a dutch keyboard: "-l nl"."
Now I'm warned that other systems that use automated kernel updates may clobber the keyboard choice for the initrd.
Re: I included emoji in my password and now I can't log in to my Account on Yosemite
#10Well, the account is now secure. Objective achieved?