Special chars humor (was password security)

Arthur David Olson ado at elsie.UUCP
Sun Dec 25 09:52:28 AEST 1988


> > . . .[a user] picked '@'. . .which /bin/passwd gladly accepted.

> Why is this a problem?  [The user] just has to enter `@' as `\@'.

The problem is that /bin/passwd fails to tell the user the above.
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	Arthur David Olson    ado at ncifcrf.gov    ADO is a trademark of Ampex.



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