Heya --
[re: characters known to cause problems in passwords]
I've run into weird problems trying to feed a password containing
an @ into PGP and RACCESS on Solaris 7. I have unfortunately forgotten
what the error message was, but we were able to fix it by escaping the
@ with a backslash in
I was debugging some password problem the other day (dash first in
password at ftp-server -> ftp-server turns off continuation messages
that may confuse some ftp programs), and I came to think of if there
excists a list of characters to avoid _for technical_ (no security rules)
reasons in passwor
On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 09:40:10AM +0100, Magni Onsoien wrote:
> to a certain service. An example is the "-" first in passwords (avoid it
> by prepending an extra - first when typing the ftp-password..), another
> is ":" in passwords at HP-UX 10.10 (I think it thinks the password ends just
> be
