On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 02:59:03AM +0100, Nick Boyce wrote:
> Aaarrgh.  I could no longer login as root, because that backslash
> character I'd entered in the root password was, of course, *not* a
> backslash at the time I entered it.

That's why I select my password characters carefully.

You can try hunting keys by typing to the Login: prompt (the system
echoes the chars) instead of the passwd prompt (with no echo).

  -jm