Password security

[Larry Dighera]

In article <4449 at sneaky.TANDY.COM> gordon at sneaky.TANDY.COM (Gordon Burditt) writes:
[...]
>- Certain characters are untypable in passwords:  nul, newline, backspace, 
>  and line-kill characters, and possibly ^S, ^Q, and ^M.
[...]

This is incorrect.  Virtually any character can be used in passwords
as well as lognames.  The mechanism which controls this is the stty
options in the initial and secondary flags located in the /etc/gettydefs
entry currently in effect on the port being accessed.  
 
Use of stty to enable literal interpretation of control characters can be
very useful in numerous circumstances.

Larry Dighera

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