From: | John R Pierce <pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com> |
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To: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: password in recovery.conf [SOLVED] |
Date: | 2014-09-26 23:40:34 |
Message-ID: | 5425F972.5040403@hogranch.com |
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On 9/26/2014 4:32 PM, Nelson Green wrote:
>
> Thanks Bosco, DrakoRod, and Adrian. Between the three of you it became
> obvious
> that I was doing something wrong. And yes, in the end you were right.
> Doubling
> the quote does indeed work.
>
> It turns out it this particular password also had a \ in it, and my
> console
> width wrapped right before it, putting it as the first character on
> the next
> line, where I just didn't notice it until a few minutes ago. I changed
> that to
> a ^ for the time being, and then doubled the quote whereupon it all
> worked. I
> will certainly look into how to escape the backslash too, but that's
> for next
> week at this point.
I'd consider using `mkpasswd -l 15 -s 0` just to avoid any such
problems. 15 random alphanumerics is already plenty complex, 62^15th
possible combinations, without needing to mix in special characters.
$ mkpasswd -l 15 -s 0
eec1kj7ZsthlYmh
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john r pierce 37N 122W
somewhere on the middle of the left coast
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