Special chars humor (was password security)

Andrew Koenig ark at alice.UUCP
Sun Dec 25 00:44:25 AEST 1988


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



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