[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I am not sure if this has been noticed, or if VNC does not like special
> characters as a password, but within the Win version I had set the password
> to "QPH@#as9%" without the "". When I use the viewer to access the server I
> can use ANY character as the last character and it will login successfully.
> I haven't played around with it much to see if I could change more than 1
> character at a time. For all I know this may be documented somewhere.
> I will play with it a little and report what happens. Are special characters
> not to be used?
Passwords are limited to 8 characters, due to limitations in the
code used to encrypt and decrypt passwords. Yours is 9 chars,
so the last is ignored.
-- Joe
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