On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 10:51:02PM -0700, the unit calling itself Kian Mohageri 
wrote:
> >
> >B14xVu: Undefined variable.
> >
> >where "B14xVu" is a fragment of the password. The full password was:
> >V$B14xVu
> >
> >I tried this on other user/password combinations, and got reasonable
> >results. But the "$" char seems to cause a problem consistently. In all
> >other cases, the result was either:
> 
> 
> Have you tried escaping the $ char to make sure the shell doesn't interpret
> it?
> 
> V\$B14xVu

Yes - sorry I failed to mention that... esc'ing the $ does get by, but 
I've just never ever heard of having to escape a password... does that 
seem logical? shouldn't it at least be documented?

Thnx,
J

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