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dmuelle committed Oct 21, 2024
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Expand Up @@ -130,13 +130,13 @@ To check whether your password includes any characters that your operating syste
On the command line, type `echo` followed by the password and review the output to determine whether it differs from your specified password. If any characters are changed, you must escape the characters. The following example is for Ubuntu.

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$ echo pa$$word
pa683word // OK until "pa"
$ echo pa\$$word // Added escape after "pa"
pa$ // OK until "pa$"
$ echo pa\$\$word // Added escape after "pa$"
pa$$word
// Escaping each special character individually provides the correct password to encode
$ securityUtility encode pa\$\$word
$ echo pa$$W0rd
pa683Word
// The dollar sign ($) special characters aren't encoded properly.
$ echo pa\$\$W0rd
pa$$W0rd
// Escape each special character individually to return the correct password to encode.
$ securityUtility encode pa\$\$w0rd
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