Allowed characters in password - 10.1
Hi, does someone knows why "/" and "\" are not allowed in the passwords, at least the ones you can set with Yast? -- -- Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny) Windows is a 32-bit extension to a 16-bit graphical shell for an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor by a 2-bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition.
Fri, 12 May 2006, by sloncho@gmail.com:
Hi, does someone knows why "/" and "\" are not allowed in the passwords, at least the ones you can set with Yast?
'/' is reserved for directories, '\' is reserved as Escape character. Theo -- Theo v. Werkhoven Registered Linux user# 99872 http://counter.li.org ICBM 52 13 26N , 4 29 47E. + ICQ: 277217131 SUSE 9.2 + Jabber: muadib@jabber.xs4all.nl Kernel 2.6.8 + See headers for PGP/GPG info. Claimer: any email I receive will become my property. Disclaimers do not apply.
On 5/13/06, Theo v. Werkhoven wrote:
Fri, 12 May 2006, by sloncho@gmail.com:
Hi, does someone knows why "/" and "\" are not allowed in the passwords, at least the ones you can set with Yast?
'/' is reserved for directories, '\' is reserved as Escape character.
Theo -- Theo v. Werkhoven Registered Linux user# 99872 http://counter.li.org ICBM 52 13 26N , 4 29 47E. + ICQ: 277217131 SUSE 9.2 + Jabber: muadib@jabber.xs4all.nl Kernel 2.6.8 + See headers for PGP/GPG info. Claimer: any email I receive will become my property. Disclaimers do not apply.
Thanks Theo, but as far as I can use these chars when I change the password on command line, the limitation in Yast does not make sense. -- Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny) Windows is a 32-bit extension to a 16-bit graphical shell for an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor by a 2-bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition.
Sat, 13 May 2006, by sloncho@gmail.com:
On 5/13/06, Theo v. Werkhoven wrote:
Fri, 12 May 2006, by sloncho@gmail.com:
Hi, does someone knows why "/" and "\" are not allowed in the passwords, at least the ones you can set with Yast?
'/' is reserved for directories, '\' is reserved as Escape character.
Thanks Theo, but as far as I can use these chars when I change the password on command line, the limitation in Yast does not make sense.
Maybe it's a security thing then, making sure no dangerour characters are excepted by YaST. With apg it's no problem either to make passwords with / or \.
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Your signature seperator is broken btw, it should be <nl>-- <nl> (one space after the two dashes). Theo -- Theo v. Werkhoven Registered Linux user# 99872 http://counter.li.org ICBM 52 13 26N , 4 29 47E. + ICQ: 277217131 SUSE 9.2 + Jabber: muadib@jabber.xs4all.nl Kernel 2.6.8 + See headers for PGP/GPG info. Claimer: any email I receive will become my property. Disclaimers do not apply.
(sorry about the direct mail, I'm playing with thunderbird a bit and it's new to me) Theo v. Werkhoven wrote:
Maybe it's a security thing then, making sure no dangerour characters are excepted by YaST. With apg it's no problem either to make passwords with / or \.
What version are we talking about? In 10.0 and 10.1 (the versions I have immediate access to right now and can check), the valid characters for a password in YaST are "[-0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ!@#\$%^&*() ,;:._+/|?{}=\['\"`<>]|]" so / but not \
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