topic Re: About @ and # in password in Operating System - HP-UX

About @ and # in password

Ryan Gu — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 05:17:49 GMT

HP always told us @ and # could not used in password on HP-UX.

If somebody used them, then you should change password in single user mode.

But I have tried. It can be done by this step.

eg: Somebody's password is abc@123 or abc#123.
You can input password by:
abc\@123
or
abc\#123

Then you login into your system!

:)

Wish you enjoy it.

Re: About @ and # in password

OFC_EDM — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 07:29:55 GMT

Have you tried this from a GSP console?
I had tried that years ago without success.

It worked from telnet and ssh sessions fine. But once going to the GSP console the passwords weren't accepted.

I won't have access to a console for the next few weeks so if you can try it out and let me know that would be great.

As I like using those characters at times as well.

Re: About @ and # in password

Ryan Gu — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:47:12 GMT

Yes, I have tried from GSP console and telnet.

Re: About @ and # in password

Jeeshan — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 03:57:11 GMT

Chiao Jason

good findings. You knew the HP secrets!!!! ;)

anyway, this can help us. But which OS version you found it? Did you check in all versions?

So, in this thread nobody can get points, right or wrong?

Re: About @ and # in password

Kapil Jha — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 04:10:18 GMT

Hello therewas a good discussion over this issue have a look over
http://forums12.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?admit=109447627+1208581598025+28353475&threadId=1182818

and I suppose you can have passwd with special character if it is preceeded by a "\"

BR,
Kapil

Re: About @ and # in password

Dennis Handly — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 04:17:24 GMT

>Kapil: I suppose you can have password with special character if it is preceded by a "\"

The only reason to use "\" is to login and immediately change it to not have # and @.

Re: About @ and # in password

Kapil Jha — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 04:46:19 GMT

Dennis,
I think we have have a passwd with special character , only thing needed is to put a "\" before so that UNIX will understand that its not any special character.
BR,
Kapil

Re: About @ and # in password

Ryan Gu — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 01:27:09 GMT

I only tried this from telnet to v11.11. It should be verify whether it works well at any situations.

I will verify it at v11.23, in sam, in ssh, and anyway I known.

The result I will paste here later.