[K12OSN] Re: samba ldap credentials question (SOLVED)
Jim Kronebusch
jim at winonacotter.org
Thu Mar 3 21:58:04 UTC 2005
> So here's a tip. When you are setting the password for the Manager
> account, Don't use a password with a semicolon in it!
I have ran into a few problems like that recently. We use to use
special characters in password like #,!,@,$ etc. But more and more I
run into problems with this. Now I stick to standard alpha numeric
password. Too much scripting sees the special characters in different
ways. I first stumbled on the problems when users of IE tried to
ftp://username:password@ftp.server and kept telling me it didn't work.
Then I find out the stupid @ sign in the password was making it look
like ftp://username:p@ssword@ftp.server and they were getting an error
saying it couldn't find server ssword. Stupid. Then I ran into Webmin
mass upload problems with the ! And # characters. And then more crap.
So I just banned it completely.
Alpha numeric, cryptic enough for me.
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