On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 05:54:43PM -0400, Archie Warnock wrote:
> 
> ... .  The entries in /etc/amandapass look 
> like this (obviously scrambled to protect real passwords):
> 
> //pommard/MyDocuments me%foo#bar
> //maranges/PrisDocs metoo%foobar
> 
> Note that this command works fine:
> 
> smbclient //pommard/MyDocuments foo#bar -U me
> 
> I'm guessing that the # sign in foo#bar is being treated as the start of 
> a comment when /etc/amandapass gets read.  I sure don't want to change a 
> working password to get a backup, though.  What am I missing?

I don't think anything.  My reading of the code in findpass.c shows
the user/passwd is picked up with a loop like this.

   while((c) != '\0' && (c) != '#' && !isspace(c)) (c) = *(ptr)++;

That appears to terminate at the octothorpe (formal name for #).
Thus your password would not be foo#bar but foo.

If I understand it correctly, this is a limitation in the "amanda-valid"
passwords and is not correctable by quoting etc.

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