Greetings. I have a script that uses a user name and password, where
the first character in the password is a ' [at] '. I can change the
password of the user id, but the only way it will accept the password
is if I put an '\' in front of the password. Is there a work around
for this, or a config file that I can change to allow an [at] in the
password? Using HP-UX B.11.11 for an OS. Much appreciated,

Bryan

On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:20:55 -0800 (PST), Bryan wrote:
> Greetings. I have a script that uses a user name and password, where
> the first character in the password is a ' [at] '. I can change the
> password of the user id, but the only way it will accept the password
> is if I put an '\' in front of the password. Is there a work around
> for this, or a config file that I can change to allow an [at] in the
> password? Using HP-UX B.11.11 for an OS. Much appreciated,
[...]

[at] is the kill character by default on HPUX. The lnext character
is \. So you should be able to type \ [at] .

Note that is possible to change that default so that it is more
like on other modern Unices (<Ctrl-U>, <Ctrl-V>), IIRC that has
to with doing the stty on a special /dev/xxx device.

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Stephane

Bryan <bryan.engebretsen [at] sage.com> writes:

> Greetings. I have a script that uses a user name and password, where
> the first character in the password is a ' [at] '. I can change the
> password of the user id, but the only way it will accept the password
> is if I put an '\' in front of the password. Is there a work around
> for this, or a config file that I can change to allow an [at] in the
> password? Using HP-UX B.11.11 for an OS. Much appreciated,

I don't have experience in HP, but some systems allow you to insert a
control character after typing a Control-Q.

Maxwell Lol <nospam [at] com.invalid> writes:

>Bryan <bryan.engebretsen [at] sage.com> writes:

>> Greetings. I have a script that uses a user name and password, where
>> the first character in the password is a ' [at] '. I can change the
>> password of the user id, but the only way it will accept the password
>> is if I put an '\' in front of the password. Is there a work around
>> for this, or a config file that I can change to allow an [at] in the
>> password? Using HP-UX B.11.11 for an OS. Much appreciated,

>I don't have experience in HP, but some systems allow you to insert a
>control character after typing a Control-Q.


The " [at] " is the original "erase" character so it interpreted by the
terminal handler, probably.

Change the tty settings to more sane values.

Casper
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On 01 Feb 2008 13:28:29 GMT, Casper H.S Dik wrote:
[...]
> The " [at] " is the original "erase" character so it interpreted by the
> terminal handler, probably.
[...]

[at] is the original *kill* character. The original erase is "#"
(and still is on HPUX). And as I said earlier, lnext is "\".

> Change the tty settings to more sane values.
[...]

To change the defaults on HPUX:

stty erase '^H' kill '^U' lnext ^V' < /dev/ttyconf
(to be put in boot script).

See the stty(1) man page.

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Stephane