Re: Password == "bla%1" (shooting into my foot)

2005-07-14 Thread Alan DeKok
Stefan Nehlsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It took some time until I figured out that my password contained a % and > the daemon tried some variable substitution. > > don't do this! > > How do I escape special chars in the users file and what characters are > special? Use '\'. And for variab

RE: Password == "bla%1" (shooting into my foot)

2005-07-14 Thread Guy Davies
Hi Stefan, I also saw this. The escape character is \. Special characters I would think of are !, #, *, ?, ^, $, &, % and (obviously) \. There may well be others. Rgds, Guy > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Stefan Nehlsen > Se