Special character * cannot be used in password

[erikanderson]

What happened: [A clear and concise description of what the bug is.]

Cannot use password with * character (with and without enclosing single quotes)

What did you expect to happen:

Successful login with saml

How to reproduce it:

Try to use password either with input or no input that has a * character

kconnect use eks --idp-protocol saml --no-input --region us-east-1 --username test_username --password 'abc*123' --role-arn arn:aws:iam::******:role/******* --namespace *********

Anything else you would like to add: [Miscellaneous information that will assist in solving the issue.]

fatal	failed executing root command	{"error": "authenticating using provider saml: authenticating: Unknown document type"}
main.main
	/home/runner/work/kconnect/kconnect/cmd/kconnect/main.go:50
runtime.main
	/opt/hostedtoolcache/go/1.17.2/x64/src/runtime/proc.go:255

Environment:

• kconnect version (use kconnect version):

version: 0.5.4
builddate: "2021-11-04T13:46:43Z"
commithash: 6db28a190b6f815858a834fccde6d7287151cb2b
goversion: go1.17.2
platform: darwin/amd64
compiler: gc

• Kubernetes version (use kubectl version):
• OS (e.g. from /etc/os-release): OSX
• Target environment (e.g. EKS, AKS, Rancher): EKS
• Authentication Used (e.g. SAML, IAM, Azure AD): SAML

[erikanderson]

I might actually be wrong about the special character causing it, I just did another test with using just letters in a wrong password and it gives the same error so this may not be a real issue, sorry