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Bug 117610 - Incorrectly escaped password in manual MySQL upgrade guide
Summary: Incorrectly escaped password in manual MySQL upgrade guide
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: [OLD] Docs-user
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Other (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Lowest trivial (vote)
Assignee: Xavier Neys (RETIRED)
URL: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/mysql-up...
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Reported: 2006-01-03 07:49 UTC by Clock
Modified: 2006-01-04 03:30 UTC (History)
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Description Clock 2006-01-03 07:49:41 UTC
--password=your_password

This is incorrect. It works only for certain passwords. It didn't work for
my password. When I used --password='your password', then it worked, because
--password='your password' is the correct way to do it.

To prevent criticism of nonconstructive criticism I hereby add the following
formal statement:
"I suggest the --password=your_password to be changed to --password='your_password' in all three occurences in the aforementioned document".
Comment 1 Xavier Neys (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-01-04 03:30:15 UTC
Isn't it obvious that if your password contains spaces or "funny" chars, they should be escaped or the password should be typed between quotes?
That applies to any command-line utility.
Anyway, I've added the quotes, but then it still does not work if your password contains quote(s).