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# 8  
Old 07-04-2012
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Originally Posted by methyl
@jlliagre
Hmm. There was a recent post from someone who had a dollar sign in their password.
Can you post a link to this posting ?
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Try it on your version of Solaris, it might work or it might not. Depends on the version of Solaris and the context.
I never heard of problems with '$' in passwords unless when poorly written shell scripts were involved in the process. This should not be the case with the OP question.
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A hash sign in a password is fun. Try it.
'#' used to be interpreted as the erase character by archaic Unix implementations (eg: Unix version 7) but this should be irrelevant with Solaris.
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The password-length issue is nothing new.
The password length issue you are referring to doesn't prevent users to authenticate when they enter the password they think is correct.
# 9  
Old 07-05-2012
@jlliagre
I didn't say that his ftp was not running only that he needed to configure the ftp setup. I was in a class where the instructor had instructions for Solaris 9 & below. So it didn't quite work on Solaris 10 that was in class. I don't remember how I fixed the lab, but there was a little more to it, then just starting one service.
# 10  
Old 07-05-2012
@jlliagre
The hash character issue (and some other characters) is a function of the tty driver. If you are not using the tty driver (e.g. for telnet), you won't have seen the problem.

It is quite possible to have an account password which will work at the login prompt but which can't be typed as an ftp password after logging in. e.g a character which appears in stty -a .

I can't find that post about a dollar sign, but the O/P fixed it by changing the password.
# 11  
Old 07-05-2012
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Originally Posted by methyl
It is quite possible to have an account password which will work at the login prompt but which can't be typed as an ftp password after logging in. e.g a character which appears in stty -a.
Indeed, but that seems quite far-fetched.
# 12  
Old 07-09-2012
@All,
thanks for responding and all the good information or possibliy errors you all mentioned.
In the meantime I found out that the security software (CA's etrust), which is installed there, did block the ftp account so I had to allow "ftp user " there and then I did work.
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