derek@hsi.UUCP (Derek Lee-Wo) (01/27/89)
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. -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Derek Lee-Wo, Health Systems International, New Haven, CT 06511. | |E-mail address :- derek@hsi.com | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+