Weird response to password

[Derek Lee-Wo]

In article <292 at logicon.arpa> Makey at LOGICON.ARPA (Jeff Makey) writes:
>In article <579 at mccc.UUCP> pjh at mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg) writes:
>>What's wrong with acsm#t as a password?
>
>For historic reasons, login treats "#" as an erase character, so the
>password actually seen is only "acst".  The problem is that the passwd
>program does not give # any special treatment...

Could the person then use the backslash character so he could login, ie.

    acsm\#t

or would that still be interpreted as
 
    acsmt.


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