Re: spaces in passwords

[Glenn Anderson <[e-mail]>]

>At 4:26 PM 5/27/94, John Gardiner Myers wrote:
>>Arguments are separated by whitespace, however the PASS command only
>>has one argument.  Therefore, the whitespace in "foo bar" isn't
>>separating anything.
>
>That's a rather unconventional view of lexical analysis.
>
>I do not buy it as a solution to the problem.  Others have clearly
>interpreted the RFC differently.

MailShare supports spaces in passwords. It matches the PASS command, skips
any whitespace and then grabs everything to the end of the line for
matching. Also, APOP will handle spaces without any of these problems
including spaces at the start or end of the password.

Glenn.

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