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Specials characters in password

Reported by Psycopg website | May 31st, 2013 @ 03:05 PM

Submitted by: olivier.margarit@cgi.com

Hi,
I'm developing a webapp which connect to a postgresql db whith your framework.
One the password I use contains !, *, @, . Every best characters for developers we can find in just one password...
The password isn't recognized by the host postgres. This password finish with *.
When I use a simplest password it works with my script and the complex one success with jdbc driver of java.
I'm sure that there is no error on my password and I obtain this message:
Error FATAL: password authentication failed for user "user"
The version I use is not under, my release is 2.4.5
Thank you

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  • Daniele Varrazzo

    Daniele Varrazzo June 1st, 2013 @ 10:44 AM

    Please specify better: are you creating the connection using a connection string:

    cnn = psycopg2.connect("dbname=foo password=abc")
    

    or using separate arguments?

    cnn = psycopg2.connect(database="foo" password="abc")
    

    Does anything change switching method?

    Can you connect via psql using exactly the same connection string of the first case?

    psql "dbname=foo password=abc"
    

    Thank you.

  • Daniele Varrazzo

    Daniele Varrazzo June 18th, 2013 @ 10:06 AM

    • State changed from “new” to “invalid”

    Can't confirm the issue: I've tried creating an user with password @#!* and @#'"!* and found no problem connecting with either methods.

    cnn = psycopg2.connect(user='testpw', password='@#!*' database='piro')
    cnn = psycopg2.connect('user=testpw password=@#!* dbname=piro')
    
    cnn = psycopg2.connect(user='testpw', password='@#\'"!*', database='piro')
    cnn = psycopg2.connect(r"""user=testpw password='@#\'"!*' dbname=piro""")
    

    In the last case the password must be escaped according to the PQconnectdb rule: the rule is applied authomatically in the 3rd example.

    Tested with psycopg 2.5 and postgres 9.2.4.

    Please reopen if you can provide a failing example and report postgres and psycopg versions.

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