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On 2013-11-14 3:32 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 14/11/2013 18:16, Tanstaafl wrote: |
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>> I had changed the password to something simple for testing, and now, |
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>> after changing it back to my strong password, it fails with: |
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>> "invalid SMTP AUTH configuration, trying unauthenticated" |
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>> The password has two special characters in it that I'm sure are |
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>> problematic - a colon and a pipe symbol (I use a password generator, and |
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>> would prefer to use my same system without modification, if possible) - |
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>> so, how can I 'wrap' it so that it doesn't matter what characters are in |
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>> the password? |
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>> I tried setting the username+password as a variable and using that: |
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>> USER_PASS="user:pass" |
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>> But it still failed with the same error.. |
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> Quoting rules. Ugh. I've found only two methods that work in real life, |
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> neither satisfactory: |
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> 1. Start almost randomly escaping suspect characters with single, |
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> quotes, double quotes and backslashes till you find a combination that |
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> works. Then remove things one at a time and try infer what the rules area |
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> 2. Read the code |
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> Not the answer you were looking for, sorry about that, but I got nothing |
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> better. |
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Thanks Alan... well, I decided this just wasn't worth the hassle, so I |
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bit the bullet and made a really long (30 characters) random jumble of |
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letters and numbers for the password. I had to create a special account |
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in my password management app (passwordmaker firefox extension) just for |
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this use, but it works, and is secure enough for me to be able to sleep |
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at night. :) |
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