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Old 10-19-2006, 12:50 AM   #1
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During installing Fedore Core 5 when it said to put my root password in the keyboard i was using would do like typing a letter at time it would do several characters instead of 1. What should I do hep is wanted with this question.
 
Old 10-19-2006, 05:55 PM   #2
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If typing characters before didn't have this behavior, I'd think it would be a way of fooling whoever is looking over your shoulder trying to know the length of your password.
 
  


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