With a quick test I can't reproduce this with %40 as encoding, but I will try some more later.
I would highly recommend to NOT write your authentication information in sources.list through. Beside the parsing problem you seem to encounter, you can't reasonably change the permission of the file (it has to be world-readable to have apt-based tools in a functional state). Instead, create the file /etc/apt/auth.conf and and use the netrc(5) format to specify the authentication tokens. You can change the access permissions to this file to your liking (600 for example) as a bonus. Example: echo 'machine example.org\nlogin star\npassword hunter2' > /etc/apt/auth.conf -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to apt in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1558484 Title: Ubuntu 12.04: apt-get can't parse repository url if username contains @ ('at' sign) Status in apt package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Reporting a bug as suggested in https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/288658 I attached Vagrantfile that reproduces the problem in which I try to add the following repositories to apt: deb https://FOO@BAR:p...@not-existing-domain.com/xyz precise non-free deb https://FOO%40BAR:p...@not-existing-domain.com/xyz precise non-free --- For both URLs the error message on Ubuntu 12.04 is the same: Failed to fetch https://domain.com/xyz/dists/precise/non-free/binary- amd64/Packages Couldn't resolve host 'BAR' $ lsb_release -a Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS Release: 12.04 Codename: precise $ apt-get --version apt 0.8.16~exp12ubuntu10.26 for amd64 compiled on Aug 5 2015 19:06:57 --- On Ubuntu 14.04 the URL is parsed correctly as in both cases the following error message is printed: Failed to fetch https://not-existing-domain.com/xyz/dists/precise/non- free/binary-i386/Packages Could not resolve host: not-existing- domain.com $ lsb_release -a Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS Release: 14.04 Codename: trusty $ apt-get --version apt 1.0.1ubuntu2 for amd64 compiled on Jan 12 2016 20:13:58 For security reasons I prefer not to disclose the real repository URL, but it works on Ubuntu 14.04 and doesn't work on 12.04. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1558484/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
