Do I need to escape special characters in my fence device username or password in a RHEL high availability cluster?

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Issue

  • My fence device password has special characters. Do I need to use an escape sequence?
  • We use Active Directory authentication on our fence device, and so the username also includes the domain, which requires a '\'. Do I need to escape this in the configuration?
  • How should I handle special characters in the fence device options?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5, 6, or 7 with the High Availability Add On
  • cman, cman+pacemaker, or pacemaker clusters
  • A fence device whose username or password contains special characters (like '#', '\', ';', '<', '>', etc.)

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