Can I have a pound sign ("#") in my password in the up2date network proxy configuration file?
Issue
When I have a pound sign ("#") in my network proxy password in the up2date configuration file, up2date/yum would not work properly. What is the problem?
Environment
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5
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