Xbian and mediaportal

[2twisty]

Meh. this machine is not accessible directly from the internet, and I invented that password for that user. I'm not worried about it. I can just change it later, too.

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Ah. This appears to be it. I looked in the addon_data/pvr.mediaportal.tvserver/settings.xml file....

the password DOES have a space in front of it.

So.. I guess the question is this: Did *I* somehow get that space in there, despite having retyped the password at least 4 times, or did xbian ADD that space due to some unseen bug?

I'm not at home where I can mess with the actual unit right now, so testing may have to wait until later (besides, the pi is slammed with a HUGE library update (just added a TON of stuff), so I want to wait for that to complete before I test anyway)

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Hmmmm.. Curiouser and curiouser....

I am starting to think that this extra space business might not be xbian....

I have been using an iOS app as a remote control so that I could config xbmc from my couch. When I select a password dialog, it pops up the keyboard and allows me to enter the password.

I have not configured either of the other two devices using this, since one was my iPad (i used xbmc's on-screen keyboard) and the other was my macBook (I used the mac's keyboard).

I'll do a little more testing, but I am wondering if THAT could be the cause... Since nobody else has reported this, and it seems unlikely that a bug in xbian that would cause leading spaces in passwords would have gone unnoticed for more than about 20 minutes after the release of 1.0a5.

I'll check my theories when I get home and report back.