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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
Comments and changes to this ticket
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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.
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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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