On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Charles Whitby <[email protected]> wrote: > It may depend on where the @ is in the string. On my Ubuntu system I had it > as the last character in the password and there were several apps (like > setting up network proxy settings) that had indigestion with that.
In the name service switch library used by the system, the password is a binary entity when in memory, and a hashed value when written to the shadow file, so you can use just about any character you want, other than an ASCII NUL (which is end-of-string in C). It wouldn't surprise me in the least to learn that some higher-level code (like a proxy client) screws things up. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
