On 02/26/15 16:47, Seth wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Feb 2015 03:51:37 -0800, Guenther Niess <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I've problems with a password in the file /etc/mail/secrets containing
>> the hash symbol '#'. The passwords gets truncated before the hash
>> symbol, when I try to escape the hash symbol with a backslash \# the
>> full password with the backslash is sent to the relay server.
>> Is this a bug, or what section of the man page did I miss to escape
>> special characters in db files?
>
> Have you tried using single or double quotes around the password?
Yes, single and double quotes. The first quote mark will be used within
the password and the password still gets truncated.
some more observations:
- on OpenBSD 5.6-stable a secrets file with:
username: passWith#works
- on OpenBSD 5.6-stable with a secrets file:
label username:passWith#dontWork
- on OpenBSD 5.7-current
label username:passWith#dontWork
username: passWith#dontWork
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