[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Re: 1.4RC1 - DB passwords in opensrf.xml

[Warren Layton]

Oops - please ignore. This was my own fault. In step 6 of the install
instructions, I put my password in double-quotes _and_ escaped the '&'
char with a backslash; only the latter was necessary).

Cheers,
  Warren

On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 9:39 PM, Warren Layton <warren.layton at gmail.com> wrote:
> When installing 1.4 RC1, I noticed that the opensrf.xml file is
> automatically populated with my DB settings! However, I did hit one minor
> bug.
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> If a DB password contains a '&' character, the DB password in the XML should
> have each '&' replaced by "&amp;". Currently, it's replaced with "\&amp;",
> which will cause problems (settings-tester.pl gives some good hints about
> the cause). This caused problems with /openils/bin/autogen and the srfsh
> login. I went through an manually removed the offending '\' chars and now
> things seems to work.
>
> Cheers,
>   Warren
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