From: Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 20:22:12 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: added note about character set limitations in passwords.
X-Git-Tag: v2.3c1~1056
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1bd1d858aeccce928261c070bd9d9c1eaf4049f9;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

added note about character set limitations in passwords.
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libnetrc.tex b/Doc/lib/libnetrc.tex
index c7573f9155c1..9bd6639f87a7 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libnetrc.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libnetrc.tex
@@ -59,3 +59,10 @@ as a pseudo-host by that name.
 \begin{memberdesc}{macros}
 Dictionary mapping macro names to string lists.
 \end{memberdesc}
+
+\note{Versions of this module before 2.2.3 and 2.3 are very limited to a
+subset of the ASCII character set for passwords.  Starting with 2.2.3 and
+2.3, ASCII punctuation is allowed in passwords.  However, note that spaces
+and non-printable characters are not allowed in passwords.  This is a
+limitation of the way the .netrc file is parsed and should be removed in the
+future.}