On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 12:11:03PM -0400, Archie Warnock wrote:
> Jon LaBadie wrote:
> >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.
> 
> Just to finish the thread, I managed to finesse the problem by using the 
> administrator account in amandapass instead of the share owner.  Works fine.
> 
> It would be really nice to remove this limitation at some point, I would 
> think.

Agreed, I'm used to thinking a # is a comment char only if following
whitespace (incld newline).  Volunteering?

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