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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Terminal-specific characters in password Post 302181636 by PittWolfBW on Thursday 3rd of April 2008 12:42:09 PM
Old 04-03-2008
Terminal-specific characters in password
Good morning!

I am using a shell script to back up user email files to a remote location. The problem is, one (and apparently more than one) users have the symbol "@" in their password. As you can see from the line:

/sbin/mount_smbfs //sampleusername:userpassword@home@XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX/mailshare

( Where their user password is: "userpassword@home" )

This then causes the script to believe that the host server name begins earlier than it really does, which causes the mount to fail.

Aside from the obvious answer of having them change their password (and this is a senior research scientist I'm dealing with, so I'm not keen on starting a big issue with them), is there a way to set off the password?

For example, when you try to copy a folder with spaces in the name, you can set it off with double quotes. Is there any such method for the password?

I have already tried single and double quotes already, to no avail. I also tried, on advice from another, to use the backlash just before the @ character within the password. However, this seemed to set off the entire rest of the line, as that yielded the error:

mount_smbfs: server connection failed: No route to host

You would think it wouldn't be a big deal to just have her change her password.. but such is life when dealing with academia.
 

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update-file-user

asadmin-update-file-user(1AS)					   User Commands				     asadmin-update-file-user(1AS)

NAME

       asadmin-update-file-user, update-file-user - updates a current file user as specified

SYNOPSIS

       update-file-user  --user  admin_user  [--password  admin_password] [--host localhost] [--port 4848] [--secure|-s] [--passwordfile filename]
       [--terse=false] [--echo=false] [--interactive=true] [--userpassword user_password] [--groups  user_groups:[user_groups]*]  [--authrealmname
       auth_realm_name] user_name

DESCRIPTION

       Updates	an  existing  entry  in keyfile by the specified user_name, user_password and groups. Multiple groups can be entered by separating
       them, with a colon, ":". If the auth_realm_name is not specified, an entry is created in the default keyfile. If auth_realm_name is  speci-
       fied, an entry is created in the keyfile where the auth-realm name in the domain.xml file points to.

       This command is supported in remote mode only.

OPTIONS

       --user		       authorized domain application server administrative username.

       --password	       password to administer the domain application server.

       --host		       machine name where the domain application server is running.

       --port		       port number of the domain application server listening for administration requests.

       --secure 	       if true, uses SSL/TLS to communicate with the domain application server.

       --passwordfile	       file containing the domain application server password.

       --terse		       indicates that any output data must be very concise, typically avoiding human-friendly sentences and favoring well-
			       formatted data for consumption by a script. Default is false.

       --echo		       setting to true will echo the command line statement on the standard output. Default is false.

       --interactive	       if set to true (default), only the required password options are prompted.

       --userpassword	       password for the file user.

       --groups 	       group where the file user belongs to.

       --authrealmname	       name, in the domain.xml file, where you have different stores for file auth realm.

OPERANDS

       user_name	       name of file user.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1: Using the update-file-user command

       asadmin> update-file-user --user admin1 --password adminadmin1
       --host pigeon --port 5001 --userpassword sample_password
       --groups staff:manager:engineer --authrealmname auth-realm1 sample_user
       Command update-file-user executed successfully

       Where: the sample_user is the file user updated with the updated user password and groups.

EXIT STATUS

       0		       command executed successfully

       1		       error in executing the command

       asadmin-delete-file-user(1AS), asadmin-list-file-users(1AS), asadmin-create-file-user(1AS), asadmin-list-file-groups(1AS)

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