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getting error when providing #,$ in between password

bazigardu — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 07:24:24 GMT

Hi All,

I am facing an error which is quite unknown to me.say I have one user like tt1,when I am providing the password for that same user say hps#th it is showing passwd changed succesfully but when again I am trying to login through the new password it is not opening.In solaries It can easily be done.customer having some application so it is urgent.It is a bug? or in between password we can't give some special character.it is 11.11 version.Can any one help me plz.

Regards
Suman

Re: getting error when providing #,$ in between password

Kapil Jha — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 07:30:48 GMT

Hi
Please have a look over thread.

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1182310

BR,
Kapil

Re: getting error when providing #,$ in between password

Torsten. — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 07:33:56 GMT

Don't use this special characters in your password, see
http://forums12.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1182310

and

http://docs.hp.com/en/B2355-60130/passwd.1.html

"...
WARNINGS
Avoid password characters which have special meaning to the tty driver, such as # (erase) and @ (kill). You may not be able to login with these characters."

Re: getting error when providing #,$ in between password

bazigardu — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 08:37:43 GMT

kindly provide me the solution,Is that possible to give password with the special character. I can't find any solve in that above link...

suman

Re: getting error when providing #,$ in between password

Robert-Jan Goossens — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 08:48:36 GMT

Suman,

Have a look at this doc.

# stty kill '^X' intr '^C' erase '^W'
http://www.docs.hp.com/en/5991-6480/ch02s03.html

Robert-Jan

Re: getting error when providing #,$ in between password

F Verschuren — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 11:01:08 GMT

man passwd:

WARNING
Avoid password characters which have special meaning to the tty
driver, such as # (erase) and @ (kill). You may not be able to login
with these characters.

Sorry it seems to be that the # and @ are not allowes on hp, please ask the user to pick a passwd whitout a # ore @.

Re: getting error when providing #,$ in between password

Jeeshan — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 13:02:01 GMT

Hi

Is your system in trusted mode or nontrusted?

In trusted mode you can declare user to use special charecters, numeric character.

But in nontrusted mode this type of policy not accepted.

Check your system please.

Re: getting error when providing #,$ in between password

Dennis Handly — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 07:36:23 GMT

>Is that possible to give password with the special character.

Sure but you must quote it with a "\".
And you have to know when and when you don't need to quote it.

>ahsan: In trusted mode you can declare user to use special charecters, numeric character.

I don't think trusted mode changes the getty magically change @ and #.

Re: getting error when providing #,$ in between password

Anshumali — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 07:58:53 GMT

Dennis,

I hope Ahsan wanted to mention the password complexity .....Enable Restriction rules.

Ahsan: If not what i cleared above, have you tested it on production system... ;0

Anshu