Title: RE: [techtalk] logins
>Reminds me of the time I saw someone telneting to their account
>somewhere else when using a rather dodgy terminal. They became
>most perplexed as they couldn't log in. I suddenly realised what
>was going on. "Is there a number three in
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Nicole wrote:
> > I think Nicole was talking about the login being all numbers, and not the
> > password. The only reason I can see this causing problems is because of
> > the fact that UIDs are based on numbers...who knows...aaron doesn't ;)
>
> Yup, it was the login that
> Someone with a login that is *all* numbers is having a problem logging
> in... can login *eventually*, but never on the first try.
This isn't related to logging in, but various utilities allow specifying users
as either login names or uids. These can get horribly confused when a
user-name is
On Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 03:54:11PM -0700 or thereabouts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> If the person's login is all numbers, is it possible that the
> num lock key is causing the problem? Or the difference between
> the regular keys and the keypad? (I'm not sure this second one
> will make a dif
If the person's login is all numbers, is it
possible that the num lock key is causing
the problem? Or the difference between
the regular keys and the keypad?
(I'm not sure this second one will make
a difference.)
(I've seen a person using a terminal that they
aren't used to, and the num lock
key
> I think Nicole was talking about the login being all numbers, and not the
> password. The only reason I can see this causing problems is because of
> the fact that UIDs are based on numbers...who knows...aaron doesn't ;)
Yup, it was the login that was all numbers. I wasn't sure just how specia
I think Nicole was talking about the login being all numbers, and not the
password. The only reason I can see this causing problems is because of
the fact that UIDs are based on numbers...who knows...aaron doesn't ;)
-Amanda
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Ingrid Schupbach wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, 27 Oct 1
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Nicole wrote:
> i know that "special characters" cause problems at the head of *nix logins
> (like _ - * $ etc), but do numbers qualify as such a "special character"?
no, numbers shouldn't pose a problem, in fact a very common way of making
a password harder to crack is to
i know that "special characters" cause problems at the head of *nix logins
(like _ - * $ etc), but do numbers qualify as such a "special character"?
The _ and - can be used within the login (as can numbers), but it's when
they lead a login that they cause problems.
Someone with a login that is
