Interesting. The ? is also used in regex's in BGP and is also escaped by
Control-V.
Brian
On Fri, 11 May 2001, Dennis Laganiere wrote:
> I was just scanning the CCO for fun and came accross this trick for the
> Enable password (and probably the others as well). I just thought it was
> cute...
>
> [The Enable password] can contain the question mark (?) character if you
> precede the question mark with the key combination Crtl-V when you create
> the password; for example, to create the password abc?123, do the
following:
>
> * Enter abc.
> * Type Crtl-V.
> * Enter ?123.
> When the system prompts you to enter the enable password, you need
> not precede the question mark with the Ctrl-V; you can simply enter abc?123
> at the password prompt.
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