escaping complex passwords

[datacenter]

escaping complex passwords

[dainman]

Try enclosing password in single quote

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On Apr 7, 2015, at 6:30 PM, kennega <[email protected]mailto:[email protected]> wrote:

First contribution here so please be kind - I am using two controllers, one in San Diego and one in New York City. My SD controller has a "normal" admin password, whereas my NYC controller has a password with a special character (an exclamation) - if I connect using say, the snapback tool, I can create a snap fine in SD. However when I try to create a snap in NYC, it bombs. Here's an example on the command line:
NYC:
KEGARREA-M-G0EU:lint kegarrea$ python acilint.py -l admin -p Ins!3579 -u https://10.87.34.16
-bash: !3579: event not found

SD:
KEGARREA-M-G0EU:lint kegarrea$ python acilint.py -l admin -p Cisco321 -u https://10.95.33.232
Getting configuration from APIC....
Processing configuration....
Critical 001: EPG 'default' in tenant 'infra' app 'access' is not assigned security clearance
etc etc

Hopefully this is a bug and not user error.

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[kennega]

Have tried that as well as double quotes and backtick... and trying to escape it with ! - no luck on any of them.

[michsmit99]

Your original issue is bash interpretation of the ! character. I tried with the single quotes
python acilint.py -l admin -p 'Ins!3579' -u https://10.87.34.16
and it "worked" (meaning that the password was accepted) but fails on your APIC due to the following issue:
https://communities.cisco.com/message/171497

[kennega]

Confirmed - thanks. I enabled TLSv1 and everything worked as expected. Thanks for the help!