[imp] passwords with a single quote

Steven Patterson S.R.Patterson@soton.ac.uk
Thu, 1 Mar 2001 10:24:41 -0000


----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank Pineau" <frank@pineaus.com>
To: <imp@lists.horde.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 8:23 PM
Subject: Re: [imp] passwords with a single quote


> Just out of curiosity, why do your users use single quotes in their
passwords?
> Do they *like* having problems?

Perhaps they just like obscure passwords which aren't easy to guess?
Imagine that!

Don't blame the password for being something unexpected, blame the software
for not expecting it (or at least dealing with it!) :)

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