Hi Sam, > > Try going for a simple test password if your normal choices have > > control-characters or other unusual stuff that might be unacceptable > > to one of the commands and not the other. > > This method has found the problem. My password had an '@' symbol at > the end of it which appears to cause the issue. Working okay without > it. Seems strange though?
Yes, strange. My first thought was it's the historical `kill' character for a tty; `stty -a' shows that's normally Ctrl-U these days. So a password of `foo@bar' would effectively be `bar'. A backslash would be used to escape its effect. I don't suppose that's it. Was the @ also at a significant position, e.g. the ninth character, and one of the commands is only allowing passwords of eight? You could try reverting to that original password having substituted @ for x to see if length's a factor. Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-02-04 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:[email protected] How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
