Kristopher Kane created KNOX-518:
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Summary: knoxcli documentation to handle special characters in
passwords when passed with --value
Key: KNOX-518
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KNOX-518
Project: Apache Knox
Issue Type: Bug
Components: KnoxCLI
Affects Versions: 0.5.0
Environment: RHEL 6, Oracle Java 1.7
Reporter: Kristopher Kane
When using '--value' to specify a password for create-alias, characters outside
of [a-z][A-Z][0-9] need to be single quoted or escaped. Double quotes are used
for weak escaping where meta-characters like '$' will be expanded as variables.
Here are some results. I've added an echo statement to the knoxcli.sh to print
what it receives from the arguments.
Double quotes results in meta-character expansion
[knox@host bin]$ ./knoxcli.sh create-alias gateway-identity-passphrase-test-3
--value "asdf$jkl;"
create-alias gateway-identity-passphrase-test-3 --value asdf;
gateway-identity-passphrase-test-3 has been successfully created.
Single quote results in a correct password:
[knox@host bin]$ ./knoxcli.sh create-alias gateway-identity-passphrase-test-3
--value 'asdf$jkl;'
-echo statement from knoxcli - create-alias gateway-identity-passphrase-test-3
--value asdf$jkl;
gateway-identity-passphrase-test-3 has been successfully created.
Per character escaping results in correct password
[knox@host bin]$ ./knoxcli.sh create-alias gateway-identity-passphrase-test-3
--value asdf\$jkl\;
-echo statement from knoxcli - create-alias gateway-identity-passphrase-test-3
--value asdf$jkl;
gateway-identity-passphrase-test-3 has been successfully created.
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