On 8/7/06, J Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 10:51:02PM -0700, the unit calling itself Kian > Mohageri wrote: > > > > > >B14xVu: Undefined variable. > > > > > >where "B14xVu" is a fragment of the password. The full password was: > > >V$B14xVu > > > > > >I tried this on other user/password combinations, and got reasonable > > >results. But the "$" char seems to cause a problem consistently. In all > > >other cases, the result was either: > > > > > > Have you tried escaping the $ char to make sure the shell doesn't > interpret > > it? > > > > V\$B14xVu > > Yes - sorry I failed to mention that... esc'ing the $ does get by, but > I've just never ever heard of having to escape a password... does that > seem logical? shouldn't it at least be documented?
It isn't that unusual. The program you're testing with is run on the command line, so special characters are going to be interpreted by the shell. Might be worth a note in the man page example or something but it's pretty common knowledge (not saying you should've known that or anything) Kian
