On Sun, Oct 17, 2021 at 11:33:48AM +0300, Pasi-Pekka Karppinen wrote: > When doing a fresh install and you are at the point where you are configuring > a wireless network, the installer is asking you to provide a WPA/WPA2 > security passphrase for the wireless network - if your WPA/WPA2 passphrase > starts with a “!” character (exclamation mark), the installer won’t accept > the passphrase.
It has been like this forever, i.e. this is not 7.0 specific. I don't think it is worth adding an exception for this particular question as it'd break the expectation of `!'s behaviour, seems rare enough to accept and would add needless complexity. Not being able to download sets, on the other hand, can be bummer during install/upgrade, but then again full offline install images as well as sysupgrade(8) are available, so that can be worked around.
