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From: ado@elsie.UUCP (Arthur David Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Special chars humor (was password security)
Message-ID: <8596@elsie.UUCP>
Date: 24 Dec 88 23:52:28 GMT
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Organization: NIH-LEC, Bethesda, MD
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> > . . .[a user] picked '@'. . .which /bin/passwd gladly accepted.

> Why is this a problem?  [The user] just has to enter `@' as `\@'.

The problem is that /bin/passwd fails to tell the user the above.
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	Arthur David Olson    ado@ncifcrf.gov    ADO is a trademark of Ampex.