Problem with special characters in dbpass

[wernerfred]

Hi,

i get the following error:

The attribute dbpass in section backend_icinga2 in main configuration file does not match the correct format. Please review your configuration.

I could narrow it down that a asterisk (*) is causing this message to appear. But since even special characters are a valid character in passwords nagvis should handle it. Otherwise there should at least be a information that (some) special characters are not allowed.

[backend_icinga2]
backendtype="ndomy"
dbhost="localhost"
dbport=3306
dbname="icinga"
dbuser="user"
dbpass="super*secret"

[NicolasGoeddel]

The regular expression used to match the password is this one: https://github.com/NagVis/nagvis/blob/142c26500192f18ef8b38a7aa7c69ebc49d8f183/share/server/core/defines/matches.php#L34

I just stumbled upon the same issue with the charater '. I just tested *, but it works. So your issue seems to be resolved. Now it is the character ' that is missing in the regular expression. Also the character " should work. Because you can set it in the INI file like so:

dbpass = "I'm \"foobar\"."

This is valid entry.