Mark, It was the '#'.
Justin Sollenberger -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Post Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 19:40 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: SLES 9 Rescue System SSH Error >>> On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 2:23 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Sollenberger, Justin CIV DISA GS4B" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the response. We just got this working...Apparently it was > being caused by the special characters I had in the tmp password. I > removed those and it works fine. Umm, by any chance was it one of these? CP Q TERM LINEND # , LINEDEL cent-sign , CHARDEL OFF, ESCAPE " , TABCHAR ] Those will work fine on an LPAR install, but not z/VM unless you modify them to something else. In which case you can't use _those_ characters in a password. (Unless you escape them with the current z/VM escape character.) Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
