Re: Passwords in Solaris 8

From: adam morley (adam@gmi.com)
Date: 09/08/01 

Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 15:39:19 -0700
From: adam morley <adam@gmi.com>
To: FOCUS-SUN@securityfocus.com
Subject: Re: Passwords in Solaris 8
Message-ID: <20010907153919.B3044@chopin.ALTER.NET>

On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 03:08:33PM -0700, Darren Moffat wrote:
> >We are undergoing a network-wide password change for all our users, and I
> >came across an interesting problem in Solaris 8 and was wondering if anyone
> >else had encountered it. I discovered that Solaris 8 does not seem to like
> >special characters in passwords, particularly the + (plus sign). I have
>
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>
> I suggest to progress this forward that you log a support call with
> Sun Enterprise Services (assuming you have a contract).

just wondering, but lets say i have a sun box, and i find a bug. now lets say i dont have a support contract. whats the procedure for logging that as a bug? i would think there would be a way, i just dont know what it is.

>
> --
> Darren J Moffat
>

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