Special character in devstack config file

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asked 2015-05-27 20:57:16 -0600

xiangfeiz
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updated 2015-05-27 20:59:00 -0600

I don't know how the special characters should be escaped when putting into devstack's config files.

For an example, if I have '$' in my password, how should I put it in localrc? I have tested the following which do not work.

password=c$b
password="c$b"

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answered 2015-05-28 01:55:42 -0600

715 ●4 ●9 ●16 http://www.france-gril...

Maybe password='c$b' would work too, that should get the shell parsing out of the loop.

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answered 2015-05-28 00:12:28 -0600

673 ●6 ●16 ●27 http://uttamhoode.blog...

DevStack configuration parameters are parsed by shell scripts whereas Oslo libraries are used for reading OpenStack configuration files. So you need to escape special characters.

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answered 2015-05-27 20:58:41 -0600

xiangfeiz
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I was testing another solution while asking the question. The one works is

password="c\$b"

I don't know if quotes are necessary.

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