[techtalk] logins
Nicole
colby at wsu.edu
Wed Oct 27 15:36:58 EST 1999
> 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 ;)
Yup, it was the login that was all numbers. I wasn't sure just how special
numbers are.
Turns out the *password* had a leading special character... a ' or
; or something like that (ahh how my memory fails me).
So numbers go back to their "normal" status and just aren't
"special" enough ;o)
Suppose I could have just hollered at aaron myself, but I didn't know he
was around and we had already called unix-guys ;o)
thanks
-nicole
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