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Re: spaces in passwords

Steve Dorner <sdorner@qualcomm.com> Fri, 27 May 1994 22:42 UTC

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From: Steve Dorner <sdorner@qualcomm.com>
Subject: Re: spaces in passwords

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.




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