[Spice-devel] Always get Invalid password while trying to connect to spice server

[Christophe Fergeau]

On Wed, Jan 02, 2019 at 09:39:46AM -0500, Frediano Ziglio wrote:
> > 
> > Hey,
> > 
> > On Wed, Dec 26, 2018 at 01:03:38PM +0100, Niccolò Belli wrote:
> > > I just noticed that the problem looks limited to special characters.
> > > For example if I set "Password" as password it works, while if I set
> > > "Password%%" it doesn't. It's weird because both my server and my desktop
> > > client use the same US English layout. It's even more weird because the
> > > same
> > > password used to work fine before.
> > 
> > I've been able to bisect this to
> > https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=8bca4613
> > which is new in qemu 3.1.0
> > For what it's worth, when you set 'Password%%', you'll be able to
> > connect with 'Password%' (ie double % becomes single %).
> > I've sent a patch fixing this to qemu-devel, but it does not appear yet
> > in its archives.
> > 
> > Christophe
> > 
> 
> I think this was the original problem with '%'.
> However it seems that virt-manager has some issue quoting.

Could be, I've only focused on '%' and virsh edit/virsh start.

Christophe
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