Ok, figured out the problem.  I was logging in with the command line, but I
forgot that you need to escape certain special characters.  So, for
example, with a password of qwER12#$, I'd need to login like this:

nessus -q localhost 1241 user qwER12#\$ ...

Thanks for the help, George.  And I hope this helps anyone else that might
run into this issue.

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On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 01:10:57PM -0500, Jared M Breland wrote:

> If I wanted to enter a user password as something like qwER12#$, should
> Nessus accept that, both in the user setup utility (which it does for me)
> and logging in from the client (which it does not for me)?
>
> And yes, the passwords are hashed.

Yes, you should be able to, and the example you give works for me (with
Nessus 2.1.1).

How are you trying to log in -- commandline or GUI?

George
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