Shell Programming and Scripting

Originally Posted by rbatte1

I have some servers that treat @ as 'end of password', so I avoid it all the time in my passwords now. I think they are HP-UX, but there must be an original standard that was followed when this became a problem. It's annoying enough having to change so many passwords, but when the rules of what is allowed vary, it becomes worse. I just avoid @ entirely now.

I've also had problems with £ & #


Robin

Originally Posted by wisecracker

This is a long shot...

Have you tried double escaping?

Assume the password is abc*abc@abc

Try this for you password "abc\\*abc\\@abc"

Note the quotes and the double escaping...

Originally Posted by rbatte1

Assuming that you aren't available on the public internet, can you post your exact command? We can then try to diagnose it further.

Change a few alphabetic characters in the password, but nothing else.



Robin