Comment by ramses0
10 years ago
I got bit one time at work by setting a password as "$foo", instead of "foo$" or "fo$o" ... turns out the password-setting script was written in perl and Strange Things happened where only some systems got updated but not others.
Honestly, probably exploitable now that I'm thinking about it... I'll have to stop by the security group and give them something to chew on over the holidays.
I had the same problem at the university with a password with '*' in it. It was actually some old bash script behind it which would update random things.