?passwd command

[CDB-Man]

Hey Dr. Brain, D1st0rt, or anyone who may know....

 

Are there certain characters which are invalid and will not work when I set a local password with ?passwd ?

 

My password contains irregular characters such as `~!@#$%^&*()_+-={}[]:;"'|\?/><.,

 

ie, are backslashes interpreted as escape characters?

[Cheese]

no

 

it is ascii

[Dr Brain]

I haven't checked the code, but I'd assume the only character not handled properly (that you can input) would be spaces and characters above ASCII 127 (e.g. ß).

[JoWie]

ASSS directly takes the input and hashes it. So everything in windows-1252 should work (note that continuum does not have graphics for all of them). Continuum may not like them in the login screen tho. Edited January 9, 2011 by JoWie

[L.C.]

(Note: I changed password before posting this.)

 

Password for L.C. included characters #[}_'1-+)<` [/] (yes, even a space character), so I can confirm that at least those characters work.

[Dr Brain]

Please note that the password you give ?passwd is only utilized when the billing server is unavailable, so it's difficult to say for sure that it has worked.

[Samapico]

Spaces should work, but spaces at the start or at the end of the password might not... someone should run some tests on a local asss server

[PlayWolf]

Eh, I changed my pass so many times due to forget when I wanted to change the computer.

 

And with my part time studies, spaces was unsuccessful. Lmao. Had to Lostpassword. XD