On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 12:11:03PM -0400, Archie Warnock wrote: > Jon LaBadie wrote: > >That appears to terminate at the octothorpe (formal name for #). > >Thus your password would not be foo#bar but foo. > > > >If I understand it correctly, this is a limitation in the "amanda-valid" > >passwords and is not correctable by quoting etc. > > Just to finish the thread, I managed to finesse the problem by using the > administrator account in amandapass instead of the share owner. Works fine. > > It would be really nice to remove this limitation at some point, I would > think.
Agreed, I'm used to thinking a # is a comment char only if following whitespace (incld newline). Volunteering? -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
