Ticket 5294

Summary:	Slurmdbd storagepass character limitation
Product:	Slurm	Reporter:	CSC sysadmins <csc-slurm-tickets>
Component:	slurmdbd	Assignee:	Marshall Garey <marshall>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	4 - Minor Issue
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Version:	17.11.7
Hardware:	Linux
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Description CSC sysadmins 2018-06-12 01:38:47 MDT

Hi,

I decided to change mysql password when upgraded from mysql to mariadb. But seems that #-mark in slurmdbd.conf StoragePass=sec#ret does not work. I tried also to add quotes around "sec#ret" but no luck.

Comment 1 Marshall Garey 2018-06-13 15:25:23 MDT

The last thing you could try is escaping the '#' character:

StoragePass=sec\#ret

but I doubt it will work - I don't believe we support the '#' character in a password (the '#' character denotes a comment), and that's not something we're likely to change.

Comment 2 CSC sysadmins 2018-06-14 00:19:52 MDT

Well, maybe just add note about limitation to man page and slurmdbd documentation page?

Comment 4 Marshall Garey 2018-06-14 09:59:43 MDT

(In reply to Tommi Tervo from comment #2)
> Well, maybe just add note about limitation to man page and slurmdbd
> documentation page?

Sure thing, I've uploaded a doc patch for review. I'll let you know when it's committed.

Comment 8 Marshall Garey 2018-07-02 13:01:26 MDT

Updated documentation is in commit 0c606741f025417a7b051e58a0f272b81a2c6908.

Closing as resolved/fixed.