User unable to login into HPUX server - password is incorrect error message occurs. (4285124)

If a user has a special character in their password and they can log into Windows but when they attempt to log into an HPUX machine with SSH or Telnet they get a failed/incorrect password error message.

This warning can be found in the passwd man page:

WARNINGS
Avoid password characters which have special meaning to the tty driver, such as # (erase) and @ (kill). You may not be able to login with these characters.

The special character in their password is sending kill/end signal to the tty driver.

To make sure the tty driver does not interpret the special character as a kill/end signal place a backward slash ( \ ) before the special character.

For Example:

If your password is '$pecia!' you would then enter it as '\$pecia\!'