Re: How to pass a password with special characters to Windows? - SOLVED

Lawrence Velázquez <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.shells.zsh.devel,gmane.comp.shells.zsh.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, Jan 17, 2025, at 8:14 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> With your input, I was able to find the winning combination:

Good to hear it.


> mount -t smbfs //username:****"%5E"*******"%25""%29"@10.0.0.23/D 
> /Users/Shared/Windows-D\

While that quoting is valid, it's pretty unorthodox (and, frankly,
hideous).  It would be more sensible to just single-quote the whole
thing so you don't have to worry about zsh interpreting any special
characters anywhere in the path:

	'//username:****%5E*******%25%[email protected]/D'


> On 1/17/25 4:12 PM, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 17, 2025, at 3:29 PM, [email protected] wrote:
>>> 3. A password on the Windows machine that cannot be changed, and
>>> contains three special characters.  The password, with the letters and
>>> numbers obfuscated is: ****^*******%)    (all * are either numbers or
>>> letters).
>> 
>> What's the third special character?

Oh I see, the third character is ")".  I'd assumed that was closing
a parenthetical phrase.


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vq
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