Yes do it from the shell and it will at least work now... On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Lonnie Abelbeck <[email protected]> wrote: > > On May 6, 2011, at 3:46 PM, Kristian Kielhofner wrote: > >> What about editing the file and wrapping the variable using 'single quotes'? > > While that works for the shell, the web interface parses the rc.conf > variables expecting double-quotes. > > Years ago, we could have standardized on single quotes, but even then single > quotes need to be escaped if part of a password, not to mention using > stripslashes() in PHP after the HTML POST. > > In general this is never an issue, except for passwords that others provide. > We can provide a fix for this in the future. > > For user defined passwords we recommend "openssl rand -base64 33" or similar, > to keep all the characters 'safe'. > > Lonnie
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