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It's a good article, but ...

> You cannot use whitespace, accented letters, hyphens, [...] in your password

When test-installing Fedora I use a password which contains some shift number key characters with my UK keyboard. It's a very good test of whether the keyboard encoding is set up correctly in all the places that take passwords. Usually at least one place is set to US keyboard, whatever the user preference.

A password containing, for example @, could cause weird log-in issues later, assuming you're not using a password manager which of course you should be.




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