[30081] in Kerberos
kadmin: Unbalanced quotes in command line
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Klaus Jensen)
Tue Jul 8 17:20:16 2008
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 16:53:00 +0200
From: Klaus Jensen <kjensen@diku.dk>
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Hi,
I'm working on using a script to change the password for a given principal.
The resulting command line is something like this:
kadmin -k -t keytapfile -p host/host.foobar -q "cpw -pw <somepassword> princ@REALM"
When <somepassword> contains a quote character (i.e. password is: foobar"omg)
I get the following error:
kadmin: Unbalanced quotes in command line
Note that the quote is escaped:
kadmin -k -t keytapfile -p host/host.foobar -q "cpw -pw foobar\"omg princ@REALM"
I tried using kadmin without '-q' and got the same error message when using
the command directly:
# kadmin -k -t keytapfile -p host/host.foobar
kadmin: cpw -pw foobar"omg princ@REALM
kadmin: Unbalanced quotes in command line
Samething when escaped:
kadmin: cpw -pw foobar\"omg princ@REALM
kadmin: Unbalanced quotes in command line
Only succesful way I found to set a password using a quote (not escaped) was:
# kadmin -k -t keytapfile -p host/host.foobar
kadmin: cpw princ@REALM
Enter password for principal "princ@REALM":
Re-enter password for principal "princ@REALM":
Password for "princ@REALM" changed.
I'm using krb5-1.5.3.
Any ideas or alternative approaches?
Thanks!
--
Klaus
"Oops, I always forget the purpose of competition is to divide people into
winners and losers." -Hobbes being sarcastic
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