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
> 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
