08-03-2005
Special Characters
I am sure this has been brought up before, but people new to Unix may not be aware of it. There are two special characters that should be avoided at all costs when creating a password. This may not be the trouble you are running into, but it is worth knowing about later on.
The two characters are "@" and "#". These have special meanings in Unix. The problem is that often the password program will accept these characters when the password is created but won't recognize them later. In my case, a Unix Admin left the company and a former Windows Admin was told to change the root password. Being used to Windows, he created a password with an "@" in it. We found that we could log in from the console and from telnet, but we could not su (change user) to root and some remote connections did not work right. One server would not let us log in as root because it was using an older login program.
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jifty::plugin::authentication::password::view
Jifty::Plugin::Authentication::Password::View(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation Jifty::Plugin::Authentication::Password::View(3pm)
NAME
Jifty::Plugin::Authentication::Password::View - views for password plugin
DESCRIPTION
This provides the templates for the pages and forms used by the password authentication plugin.
TEMPLATES
signup
Displays a sign-up form.
login
Displays the login form.
login_widget
A handy template for embedding the login form. Just include it in your templates via:
show('/login_widget');
See Jifty::Plugin::Authentication::Password::Action::Login.
let/reset_lost_password
After requesting a password reset and clicking on the link sent by email, this receives that click and provides the form for resetting the
password.
See Jifty::Plugin::Authentication::Action::ResetLostPassword.
let/confirm_email
Handles the work of confirming an email address for a new account.
See Jifty::Plugin::Authenticaiton::Password::View.
lost_password
Starts the process of sending a link to reset a lost password by email.
See Jifty::Plugin::Authentication::Password::SendPasswordReminder.
resend_confirmation
Request a new email confirmation message be sent to your email account.
See Jifty::Plugin::Authentication::Password::Action::ResendConfirmation.
SEE ALSO
Jifty::Plugin::Authentication::Password, Jifty::Plugin::Authentication::Password::Dispatcher
LICENSE
Jifty is Copyright 2005-2010 Best Practical Solutions, LLC. Jifty is distributed under the same terms as Perl itself.
perl v5.14.2 2010-12-10 Jifty::Plugin::Authentication::Password::View(3pm)