RE: [sqwebmail] problem handling certain characters in passwords

[Paul Theodoropoulos]

At 01:59 PM 01-10-2003, Paul Crook wrote:

> Hi,
>
> don't know if this is a known problem but I just install sqwebmail
> 3.3.2 under Debian (stable).  Everying works except it appears that
> certain 'special' characters that were used in people passwords aren't
> handled correctly such that they couldn't log into the web mail
> screen.   I've not checked exactly which character or characters are
> at fault but suspects are double quotes (") and amphersine (&).

not that it matters to anyone, but just for general edification: the "&" symbol is "ampersand". and if you really want to thow someone, refer to the "#" as an "octothorpe", which is its true name.

trivia 'r' us


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