Careful With that Password!
On an internal mailing list a little while back, someone was having trouble with the Sharepoint installation. When they would go to install Sharepoint, they would enter the registration code and whatever other information that was required, and then the next screen would promptly start to UNinstall Sharepoint!
So, about 30 minutes later, the person doing the install emailed again, saying he had found the problem. Apparently the user account that they were using for the Sharepoint database had a dash “-“ as the first character of the password, so when the username and password were passed on the command line for the setup, it was actually interpreted as another parameter to the command line program! I just found that interesting, of all things to cause problems, sheesh……….
johnwood said,
Wrote on January 9, 2006 @ 2:22 pm
Not to mention that it’s so easy to replace that command line program with your own program that captures the password… it barely qualifies as a password at all.