[Cvs-mvs] Login passwords for CVS-MVS -- Problems with Special Characters

[Wayne Johnson]

Thanks John.

The logon code uses the MVS atoe table to translate the password before
its encrypted to send over the network.  My guess is the @ is not being
translated correctly in the table.

We originally had iconv() converting the password, but this change got
dropped when our two development branches were merged.

Anyone have a good idea if iconv would work better?

--- John N Armstrong <john@objectivelogic.com> wrote:
> I downloaded and installed the CVS-MVS binary on a z/OS V1R1 system,
> and
> discovered that cvs login didn’t work – the server rejected the request
> as
> unauthorized.
> 
> Turns out my login password contained special characters – @ and $ --
> which
> apparently are not handled correctly when translated from EBCDIC to
> ASCII. I
> simplified my password by eliminating special characters and using only
> lower-case alpha and digits, and it worked fine.
> 
> John
> 
> 


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