Re: Please Review First Program: Random Password Generator

Nice!

When I got my first password at university, it was also generated by a program, and it consisted of letters and special characters. Unfortunately, the password I got contained a backslash (\) - and unfortunately there was no way for me to enter the backslash when trying to log in. Probably the login-processing interpreted it as an escape-sequence. (Using \\ didn't work either ... after some time with the admin I got the \ replaced it by an !)

So I recommend to be careful when choosing which special characters you allow in your passwords.

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Re^2: Please Review First Program: Random Password Generator by ikegami (Patriarch) on Feb 05, 2011 at 05:16 UTC
Good point. Along those lines, one has to keep international keyboards in mind. One of my passwords has a backtick in it, and I couldn't find it on the ca-fr keyboard. (Finally found it as grave accent on a space.)	[reply]
Re^2: Please Review First Program: Random Password Generator by hakkum (Acolyte) on Feb 05, 2011 at 06:20 UTC
I did initially plan on excluding that. But when I was looking around the web, I saw that most (well actually all the pages I came across) accepted backslashes in their passwords. I'm now curious: is there a place that details which symbols are definitely accepted as input (including, as ikegami stated, the symbols which are standard on all keyboards)? -- hakkum ...never forget the hakkum bakkum, the hakkum bakkum never forgets...	[reply]