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Hans Neeson-Bumpsadese Silver badge
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Re: Special characters

AFAICR even control characters were allowed in old-style Unix passwords

You speak the truth. I distinctly remember using Unix systems back in the early 90s where the password included <ctrl>character sequence (partly because it could provide a greater degree of security, but mostly because we'd learned it was a trick you could do and thought it was cool to use).

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