NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #20/NN_1992_20.iso/spool/comp/sys/hp/10469

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From: [e-mail] (System Admin (Mike Peterson))
Subject: Re: passwd won't accept special characters
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Organization: University of Toronto Chemistry Department
References: <[e-mail]>
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 23:57:59 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Jim Napier) writes:
>
>I have an HP 720 running HP-UX 8.07. I've just discovered that the passwd
>program won't accept some special characters. The character in question that
>it tripped over was the @ symbol. ...

I called this one in a while ago, and got basically the same response
you did - "telnetd/rlogind works that way" and the engineer, after
having a mild chuckle over the users predicament, saw
no reason this should be considered a bug. It locked out the user
who put a '#' in his password, and he had a few days of mild panic since
I was away at the time -- if I had done that as 'root', there
would have been real trouble. An SR was entered (# 5003078022), but
since all my Calls/SRs have been cancelled by HP, someone else will have
to enter a new one for any action to ever be taken.

You can use "funny" characters if you put a '\' in front of them
when typing the password to the "Password:" prompt at login time.

I have never seen this nonsense on other U**X platforms.
--
What are the chances that any HP computer system will ever "work" properly?
... and Slim just left town. -*- Mike Peterson, SysAdmin, U/Toronto Chemistry