Do I need to escape special characters in my fence device username or password in a RHEL high availability cluster?
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, orpacemakerclusters- A fence device whose username or password contains special characters (like '#', '\', ';', '<', '>', etc.)
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