Overleaf passwords containing "*"
ciskakemper opened this issue · comments
Overleaf passwords with a * in it are not always allowed to be defined as an environment variable. It should probably included into the documentation that setting environment variables only works if certain characters, including *, are not part of the overleaf password.
I think that environment variables can include a * (at least in my environment), as long as the variable value is quoted, e.g.:
export OVERLEAF_PASSWORD="something_with_a_*"It's totally possible that we don't use such environment variables properly in our Overleaf integration. Did the issues occur when you were setting the variable, or when you were using it within showyourwork? If the former, perhaps we could add a note to the documentation. Otherwise, there's probably an issue that we need to fix internally. Thanks!
When I was setting the variable.
Got it - well the trick of quoting the value works fine on my end. Does that work for you?
Yes, it now works for me too. I could swear I tried using the quotation marks before, and that it didn't work, but my memory is failing here, it seems. Ok, this can be closed then I guess, it's a non-issue.
No worries at all! Let's keep this open for now because I want to double check how we use the password in our integration to make sure it is safe from this issue, and it would be worth adding a clear statement about this to the docs.