Hi Thierry,
> AFAIK only user names starting with a number are
really forbitten and
> the user name is not the problem. It seems, that tdm dosn't like the
> Umlaut in the password.
Have you tried setting the password in kuser? In my
opinion, if kuser lets you
set a password but does not accept later, it would be a bug.
No. I use the unix/linux program passwd.
Fine regards
Rolf