Raymond C. Rodgers wrote:
Hi folks,
I have a rather annoying problem. My company uses a special character as
a part of a password for an ftp account a Linux server, and I cannot
seem to get Fedora 9 to connect to the server as a result. All the
Windows and even Mac clients that connect to that server seem to have no
problem, it's just that I can't seem to get another Linux box to do the
same.
The character keystroke under Windows is ALT-248. Now, I've used the
Character Map in F9 to identify the character (by using the find
feature) simply as the degree symbol, though it appears slightly
different under Windows, which is apparently U+00B0. The catch is even
when I copy the password from a known good source (an Excel file opened
in OpenOffice), connection attempts to the server fail.
Although I have the power to do so, I'm very reluctant to change the
password because of my co-workers; while they're willing to change
things, they'd have to update a fair number of ftp programs, and frankly
aside from my difficulties with it under Linux, it seems to be a pretty
good password. Obviously, it should be possible to enter this password
under Linux since it was set on a Linux box, but I seem to be out of
ideas of how to do it.
Anyone have any good ideas?
I've always thought that when you entered the ALT character in Windows you
had to enter it with a leading 0. So, ALT-248 really should be typed
"ALT-0248".
If I type "ALT-0248" in windows I get ø while if I type "ALT-248" I do get °.
Now you say it look slight different under windows. Maybe they actually are
different. I guess what I would do is to create a file under windows with
the character that you need and then cat it on a terminal window and use it
as the input. I would also use a hex editor to examine the file to make
sure it is the code that you think it is.
Ed
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