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I was making a script to change the password of login to one of my VPS machine, and it's something like the following, and unfortunatelly the ^M character (not the combination of '^' and 'M') was added mistakenly into the script. And now I couldn't login to the machine anymore. I found out the character when editing the script using vi. Now I am wondering what should I input when being asked for the password. Any help would be really appreciated!
ssh root@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx "passwd <<EOF
testpass^M
testpass^M
EOF";
bcbishop
Posted 2012-12-09T03:42:22.943
Reputation: 101
Command+V comes up as ^M for me. – None – 2012-12-09T03:44:56.573
^Mis the control character for newline. What should work is hittingctrl-vthen return (then return again to actually send the password). – Brian Roach – 2012-12-09T03:46:52.950On my machine, Command+V is paste. Tried with ctrl-v, not work neither. :( – None – 2012-12-09T07:38:13.573