Failed to parse URI

[asifiqbal]

Trying to find out why rvc fails when password has odd characters? I am calling it from bash

read -r -s -p Password: _pass

rvc "$_user":"$_pass"@vcenter.example.com give the following error

Failed to parse URI "asifqwest:@vctr-01.example.net": bad component(expected user component):

Looks like it breaks with certain passwords?

[asifiqbal]

after lot of debug I found it does not a like password like this 'Z#l]zMs&Pp4I'

need a fix bad!

[asifiqbal]

RVC::URIParser.parse(%{user:bzX#s&[email protected]})
URI::InvalidComponentError: bad component(expected user component):

[codemonkeyjohn]

Try the following instead:

RBVMOMI_USER=user
export RBVMOMI_USER

read -r -s -p Password: RBVMOMI_PASSWORD
export RBVMOMI_PASSWORD

rvc vcenter.example.com

[asifiqbal]

Thanks looks to be working! Thanks a lot!

[asifiqbal]

looks like ovftool dislikes those characters in the password as well? any suggestion on a environment variable for that? I know this is off topic for rvc but could not find a better place to ask this question without creating an account with vmware.

[codemonkeyjohn]

I haven't used ovftool, but this article indicates that you should be able to URL encode the odd characters.