In article <3934 at pt.cs.cmu.edu>, dlc at dlc.fac.cs.cmu.edu (Daryl Clevenger) writes: > Being relatively naive about > UNIX and not knowing its history, he picked '@' as his special character, > which /bin/passwd gladly accepted. Why is this a problem? He just has to enter `@' as `\@'. -- --Andrew Koenig ark at europa.att.com