14 Jul
2005
14 Jul
'05
11:40 a.m.
Stefan Nehlsen <sn@parlanet.de> wrote:
It took some time until I figured out that my password contained a % and the daemon tried some variable substitution.
don't do this!
How do I escape special chars in the users file and what characters are special?
Use '\'. And for variable substitution, the only real magic character is %. If you put quotes into a password, you'll have to escape it, too. But the rest of the characters that are usually magic shell characters should be OK. Alan DeKok.