Passwords for MySQL

[John Ralls]

> On Jan 2, 2016, at 12:42 PM, aeneas <receiver at gowdygroup.net> wrote:
> 
> It appears as though I wasn't clear.  I was trying to say that the password
> was the data enclosed in quotes meaning that the quotes were NOT part of the
> password.  My attempt to be more explicit with the parenthetical qualifier
> apparently had the opposite affect of creating confusion.
> 
> The generated password that failed contained NO special characters.
> 
> Is it possible that when doing a copy/paste operation and carelessly
> including a trailing space character that GNUcash included that as part of
> the password and MySQL did not strip such a character.  Clearly, I'm now
> only throwing darts.

It's entirely possible, in fact extremely likely, that you didn't get the password entered correctly either into GnuCash or into MySQL. GnuCash just passes through what it gets, subject to the encoding issues I explained earlier.

Regards,
John Ralls