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From: derek@hsi.UUCP (Derek Lee-Wo)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Weird response to password
Message-ID: <274@hsi86.hsi.UUCP>
Date: 26 Jan 89 19:41:38 GMT
References: <579@mccc.UUCP> <292@logicon.arpa>
Reply-To: derek@hsi86.UUCP (Derek Lee-Wo)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Health Systems Intl., New Haven, CT.
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In article <292@logicon.arpa> Makey@LOGICON.ARPA (Jeff Makey) writes:
>In article <579@mccc.UUCP> pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg) writes:
>>What's wrong with acsm#t as a password?
>
>For historic reasons, login treats "#" as an erase character, so the
>password actually seen is only "acst".  The problem is that the passwd
>program does not give # any special treatment...

Could the person then use the backslash character so he could login, ie.

    acsm\#t

or would that still be interpreted as
 
    acsmt.


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