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From: ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Special chars humor (was password security)
Message-ID: <8598@alice.UUCP>
Date: 24 Dec 88 14:44:25 GMT
References: <8594@alice.UUCP> <3934@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Liberty Corner NJ
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In article <3934@pt.cs.cmu.edu>, dlc@dlc.fac.cs.cmu.edu (Daryl Clevenger) writes:
> Being relatively naive about
> UNIX and not knowing its history, he picked '@' as his special character,
> which /bin/passwd gladly accepted.

Why is this a problem?  He just has to enter `@' as `\@'.
-- 
				--Andrew Koenig
				  ark@europa.att.com