How do I use special characters in passwords?

[agezco]

Describe the bug

Special characters are not accepted in passwords when adding them in console

Reproduction steps

1. rabbitmqctl add_user test P@$$w0rD
2. rabbitmqctl set_permissions -p / test "." "." ".*"
3. rabbitmqctl set_user_tags test administrator
4. try to login (i tested with managment interface)

Expected behavior

it should login, but in management interface i have massage: "Not_Authorized"

Additional context

after adding user with another (simple) password, i was able to change password to P@$$w0rD with management interface and it works after this

[michaelklishin]

@agezco if they are not accepted, how come Team RabbitMQ uses them in Tanzu RabbitMQ, the K8S Operator and there is a dedicated doc section on these characters?

In addition to string value escaping coming in 4.0 for those who specifically try to use # as one of the characters.

What you are looking at is your shell escaping or interpreting parts of the password before the CLI command is even executed.

[lukebakken]

@agezco basically, your question is "how does my shell work?"

Run this command:

echo rabbitmqctl add_user test P@$$w0rD