[cups.bugs] [HIGH] STR #2459: Patch to allow comment chars inpassword fields

[Kurt Pfeifle]

Daniel M. Lambea wrote:

> SMB-connected printers can have comment chars as part of the password,
> which makes CUPS unable to work with these printers. Bug relates to the
> comment char (currently '#') being used as part of the SMB password which
> makes the rest of the line to be discarded.

Did you try to use the official IETF URL encoding rule for translating
the '#'-character (that would be '%23', AFAIR) when you configured the
device URI?

(That would translate 'smb://username:p#sswo#d@windowshost/printername'
into 'smb://username:p%23sswo%23d@windowshost/printername'...)

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