From f6b74da36ad9601c9a777589f68e6d657d9adb11 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 20:36:18 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] backport note about password limitations

---
 Doc/lib/libnetrc.tex | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Doc/lib/libnetrc.tex b/Doc/lib/libnetrc.tex
index c7573f9155c1..3d14001ef345 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{Passwords are limited to a subset of the ASCII character set.
+Versions of this module prior to 2.2.3 were extremely limited.  Starting
+with 2.2.3, all ASCII punctuation is allowed in passwords.  However, note
+that whitespace and non-printable characters are not allowed in passwords.
+This is a limitation of the way the .netrc file is parsed and may be removed
+in the future.}
-- 
2.47.3