[Nottingham] Bad passwd characters

[Andy Davidson]

Robert Hart wrote:
>>What were those troublesome characters mentioned many lugs ago that 
>>cause confusion when entered on the commandline to "passwd"?
> Dunno about what was mentioned in the lug, but I know using tab can be a
> mistake. As far as I know this works fine for passwd and standard login,
> but may cause problems in GUI environments where tab will shift input to
> the next control.

I've seen people get confused when they use symbols in their passwords 
which 'move' between US and UK keymaps. :-)

-a