Re: telnet password problem

From: Sandgroper (steveray_at_KNICKERSiinet.net.au)
Date: 06/28/04

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    "Mike - EMAIL IGNORED" <m_d_beger_1900@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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    > On RH-E-WS-3, using the telnet server supplied,
    > a password that contains the pound sign, '#',
    > does not gain access. The same password works
    > for other logins. Any suggestions?

    The pound "#" sign is a special key that is used on the old Unix system and
    older keyboards/terminals as the erase key if the other keys such as
    [control-H ] or backspace key doesn't work.
    It is also used to comment in scripts and as a secondary prompt symbol.

    So in effect , the pound symbol "#" is a special character that should not
    be used as a character in a password.

    The only way of using the pound symbol "#" as a literal character is to use
    the escape sequence of a backslash character "\" immediately before the
    pound symbol like \ #

    You should not use any symbol in any passwords , you should only use
    characters that are contained in regular expressions such as [0 .... 9] ,
    [a ....z] , [A.....Z] for any password character because a quite a lot of
    the symbols are used as special characters for unix / linux

    Read up on the subject of Regular Expressions. 

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