[techtalk] logins

[Amanda June Harter]

I think Nicole was talking about the login being all numbers, and not the
password.  The only reason I can see this causing problems is because of
the fact that UIDs are based on numbers...who knows...aaron doesn't ;)

-Amanda

On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Ingrid Schupbach wrote:

> 
> 
> On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Nicole wrote:
> 
> > i know that "special characters" cause problems at the head of *nix logins
> > (like _ - * $ etc), but do numbers qualify as such a "special character"?
> 
> no, numbers shouldn't pose a problem, in fact a very common way of making
> a password harder to crack is to replace letters with numbers (so common
> and well-known in fact, that some obvious substitutions like "1" for "i"
> are no longer much of a security enhancement). characters like "+", "@"
> and so forth are also acceptable in passwords.
> 
> i would be surprised if the person's all-number password was a problem
> because of the use of numerals.  did the person by any chance make the
> password too long?  some one i know did this once, and the password would
> work sometimes, but not others.  some password programs just ignore or cut
> the extra characters off, some won't even let you type in more than the
> maximum, but other's aren't that clever.
> 
> good luck.
> 
> ingrid
> 
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