Which special chars allowed in password?

[SamBones]

Howdy All!

The man page for passwd says...
[tt]
Each password must contain at least two alphabetic
characters and at least one numeric or special charac-
ter. In this case, "alphabetic" refers to all upper or
lower case letters.
[/tt]
Can anyone tell me which special characters are allowed?

Thanks in advance!

 

[bi]

I would think it might depend on the flavor of Unix you are using. I have seen in HP-UX (at least at 10.2 -- a few years ago) that the OS didn't like a $ or # (can't remember which). But I know you can use either $ or # with Sun and at least the $ with HP-UX 11i and AIX.

And I have seen someone on a tek-tips forum saying that doing an ftp with a user name whose password contained a British pound sign caused login problems.

 

[SamBones]

I'm using Solaris if that'll fine tune the responses.