"#" is being stripped

[BigDaddyCool]

I am trying to run a program and pass a password directly into it. However my password ends with the "#" character and for some reason AutoIT is stripping it out so authentication fails.

$psswrd = ("passwordwitha#ontheend")

Can someone please tell me how to get around this?

Thanks in advance.

[JSThePatriot]

@BigDaddyCool

It would seem your code is incorrect. I hope you don't have () around your variable assignments. The proper code should be...

$psswrd = "passwordwithapoundontheend#"

From here you would need to let us know what you're doing with that variable. We cannot help if we cannot duplicate the issue you're having, or see something in code, and seeing as you've only provided pseudo code we don't have the option of checking your code out either. If you can create a sample script that does the same thing as your actual script this would help immensely.

I hope this helps some,

Jarvis

[BigDaddyCool]

$psswrd = "passwordwith#init"

; Run SSH2

Run("ssh2 username@domain.com")

WinWait("C:\Program Files\Attachmate\RSecure\ssh2.exe")

;Sleep(7500)

Send($psswrd)

Send("{ENTER}")

Pretty straight forward. I can get this to work as long as I do not have a # symbol anywhere in the password. I cannot find this as a requirement anywhere I look in the help file. I have 240+ servers worldwide that I will be using AUTOIT to connect to and they have # symbols in the passwords for the users. I can change this however it is not the easiest thing to accomplish.

Thanks

v/r

[Prab]

Look at the send help file.

The # is getting changed to {windows key}. Change Send($psswrd) to Send($psswrd, 1).

[JSThePatriot]

I would recommend maybe trying ControlSend, ControlSetText just to see if there's a difference in their handling of the parameter. Have you tried putting your password directly in the Send function such as...

$psswrd = "passwordwith#init"
; Run SSH2
Run("ssh2 username@domain.com")
WinWait("C:\Program Files\Attachmate\RSecure\ssh2.exe")
;Sleep(7500)
;Send($psswrd)
Send("passwordwith#init")
Send("{ENTER}")oÝ÷ Ø l¢Úòjëh×6$psswrd = "passwordwith#init"
; Run SSH2
Run("ssh2 username@domain.com")
WinWait("C:\Program Files\Attachmate\RSecure\ssh2.exe")
;Sleep(7500)
Send($psswrd, 1)
Send("{ENTER}")

Thanks,

Jarvis

[JSThePatriot]

Look at the send help file.

The # is getting changed to {windows key}. Change Send($psswrd) to Send($psswrd, 1).

Well done... I thought of that at the end of my post...

Jarvis

[BigDaddyCool]

Look at the send help file.

The # is getting changed to {windows key}. Change Send($psswrd) to Send($psswrd, 1).

That did the trick.. Thanks.