Guenther Niess writes: > 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
I reported this to bugs@ a while back, because I had hit the same issue. # in secrets definitely worked on OpenBSD at some point in the past (maybe before sendmail's makemap(8) was removed?). -- Anthony J. Bentley -- You received this mail because you are subscribed to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send a mail to: [email protected]
