Does anyone know a special character that appears to be an upside down check mark? It's for a Cisco VPN login password screen, running on an XP box.
I have a handwritten password and part of it is an upside down check mark. I checked with the person I got the credentials from, and was told that's exactly what it's supposed to be, but they don't know what it is and have never seen it before. Not sure if it should indicate some sort of unseen character, like the "b" looking space character written by hand, or what.
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I have a handwritten password and part of it is an upside down check mark. I checked with the person I got the credentials from, and was told that's exactly what it's supposed to be, but they don't know what it is and have never seen it before.
How can someone issue a password and not know what all of the characters are???
Anyway, I see nothing on my keyboard that even remotely resembles that. Can you go back to your "credentialing" people and ask them to generate a new password for you? Hopefully, the new one will contain characters that are actually represented on your keyboard.
It's possible it's the ^, I'll have to try that, didn't even consider that, thanks.
I was a bit suprised they weren't sure what it was either. And, they can't change it, it's from some government deal so it can't be changed. I wish I had checked this last night so I could try it (box is at home). They told me they can't change it because in an effort to make the system "extra-secure", not even the user can change it. Welp, it's extra secure alright, so secure I can't get into it.
Here's to us!
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Darned few, and they're all dead!
surely a password that can't be changed is less not more secure. If your password gets out your vunerable for ever.
Password security has lost its way. It is a common perception that in order to secure the network, passwords should be impossibly hard to remember and type in, and should be changed regularly.
This guy smashes that theory over the heads of those who believe it:
He basically states that the above practice actually makes a network less secure as people will just write down those impossible passwords anyway. To prove his point, he uses your debit-card as an example. Mine is a 4-digit numeric password. So is most people's. And this is what we use to secure access to our most precious thing: our bank account!
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