[Freeipa-users] bug in ipa user-add

[Steven Jones]

Hi,

So the docs should cover this at the least....

regards
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From: Dan Scott [danieljamesscott at gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, 31 May 2011 2:12 p.m.
To: Steven Jones
Cc: freeipa-users
Subject: Re: [Freeipa-users] bug in ipa user-add

Hi,

On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 21:19, Steven Jones <Steven.Jones at vuw.ac.nz> wrote:
> so if I do a ipa user-add user1 --password qwerty&sdf
>
> It barfs on the "&"
>
> says "sdf: command not found"

I haven't tested this, but I imagine that you'd need to quote or
escape any special characters:

ipa user-add user1 --password qwerty\&sdf

or

ipa user-add user1 --password "qwerty&sdf"

Other characters will cause problems too: 'greater than', less than,
single quote, double quote, tilde, pipe etc.

Hope this helps,

Dan