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VNC Special Characters

Posted on September 15, 2013

I’ve tried to log in via the vnc pannel, but I can’t type in my password, because it contains specialcharacters like }:;.

The login via ssh is not possible (I’ve changed the ssh settings).



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<kyhwana> “change your root password, login via VNC and fix ssh” <br> <br>this solution worked for me. topic can be closed.

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