Bug 13566

Summary:	user password not accepted on ftp login
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	scheck <torscheck>
Component:	ftp	Assignee:	Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	6.2
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Hardware:	i586
OS:	Linux
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Description scheck 2000-07-07 12:24:24 UTC

Change a users password with passwd to: "-_qwert".
Try a "ftp localhost" and login with the new password.
With every password beginning with a "-_" I tried I wasn't 
able to login. (the same in kfm: ftp://user@localhost)
Passwords beginning with "_-" are ok.

Strange! Is this a bug or a feature?

Comment 1 Seth Vidal 2000-07-14 05:09:13 UTC

Its common for ftp servers to have this message:
Begin your password entry with a - (dash) to suppress the helpful messages.

That is so it turns off the dumb misc messages.

Try putting two dashes.
see if it works that way.
alternatively ask your users not to have password starting with dash
finally - this doesn't occur on proftpd.

Comment 2 scheck 2000-07-17 12:46:02 UTC

So it's a feature. 
An additional dash works fine. 
Thank you.

Before this bug report I searched the man pages and the web, but I didn't found 
any hint to this feature.

I'd propose 
STATUS     = RESOLVED
RESOLUTION = NOTABUG

Comment 3 Henri Schlereth 2000-08-02 02:13:03 UTC

Per customers request changed status of bug report.

Henri
RHBT