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From: dold@15.usenet.us.com
Subject: Re: Passwords in upper case
Date: 26 Feb 1999 01:21:57 GMT
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Bob Mergner (rmergner@hworks.com) wrote:
: I have a script that logs onto a system with a username, and a password that
: has been encrypted by k95dial's script generator. This password is lower
I recall that there was a special character that would indicate that
the following characters were to be case-swapped. This is from
long-long ago, but it might apply to AIX, where I have debugged some
really odd old things. Is there anything in your name or password tht
is not a "normal" character [a-z,0-9] ?
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Clarence A Dold - dold@network.rahul.net
- Pope Valley & Napa CA.