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I have a 27 character-long password. I can log in from the command line, but I cannot log in from the Fluxbox login manager.
It says "User name / password combination not recognised." When I installed Salix, I used a short password and I was
able to log in from the Fluxbox login manager. After Salix was fully installed, I changed my password to a longer one and now
I cannot log in. Any ideas? Thanks.

By "Fluxbox login manager" I guess you mean GDM. I don't know, maybe there is a limit and you hit it. Can you still login from a console? Hit Ctrl-Alt-F2 and try to login there. If you can, it's a limitation of GDM apparenty. If you still want to keep the same password, you'd better change the default runlevel to 3 (by editing /etc/inittab) and start fluxbox with startx.

Oh, I didn't know it was GDM. Thanks.
Anyway, I am able to login at a console and do a startx.
The problem with that scheme is when the
screensaver asks for my password and doesn't
like my long one

i have seen some bugs with GDM and password problems. But all I have noticed is that they are associated with locales and certain characters. So maybe try a password without any special characters to see if that helps. Also see if trying as root and under security changing to automatic login. Let's see if that gets you somewhere.

I just tried a 30-letter password and it worked fine in GDM. So, you're either using some kind of special character that you're not inputting correctly or with all those letters you're making errors typing the password correctly all the time.

I discovered that the left and right arrow keys do not work in the password field.
Keying in my password involves moving the cursor to the left at certain points
by means of the left arrow key. The arrow keys do have an effect when keying
one's password on the command line, however. Very strange

My fix will be to create a slightly less complex password scheme

Thanks All!