#57 Is it recommended to use sngle quotes around username and password when using the --user switch?

[KevP]

Hi all,

In testing winexe v1.1 I've found a few issues with authentication failures. I think I've worked out that it might be due to quoting/not quoting the username and password. This seems to work best:

--user='domain\username'%'passowrd'

But is this recommended?... and does the code handle this correctly in all cases (to the best of your knowledge)...?

I'm using a 32bit winexe compiled on Ubuntu 14.04.

Cheers v much

Kev/.

[ahajda]

It is not winexe specific, it is rather shell depended. If any part of the string passed via command line contains special characters it should be properly escaped. In bash/sh enclosing string in single quotes is the simplest way, unless the string contains single quote :)
Please read bash manual for full description of escaping characters.