From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Description of problem: While trying to register a new system under an existing account using up2date, I enter my username and password and get the following error: Error message: password contains character `"' Error Class Code: 15 Error Class Info: The username contains invalid characters. Three problems: 1. Up2date should accept a wider range of characters in passwords to permit more secure passwords. 2. Up2date should at least accept the same range of characters for passwords that the RHN and RedHat web sites accept when setting passwords. 3. The Error Class Info is not correct; the problem is with the password, not the username. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): up2date-4.0.1-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. From the RHN web site, change the account password to include a ". 2. Run up2date to register a new system with RHN. 3. Enter the username and password for the account from step 1. Actual Results: Error message: password contains character `"' Expected Results: Successful registration. Additional info:
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