[rabbitmq-discuss] Shovel from a user with a Password with @ symbol

Mon Feb 4 17:51:33 GMT 2013

On 04/02/13 15:16, Jason McIntosh wrote:
> So I hit a snag configuring our shovel.  We'd created a password with
> the "@" symbol - but shovel sees this as a setting for the host.  Is
> there an escape syntax I'm missing or some other configuration to allow
> @ symbols in the password, or should we just avoid using these?

URL encode it: amqp://user:p%40ssw0rd@hostname

>   Additionally, any thoughts to storing the password in an encrypted
> format instead of the plaintext that it is right now?

If it was symmetrically encrypted then you'd need to store the 
encryption key with it :-)

But you can use public key encryption - if you set up a bunch of SSL 
certs you can have clients authenticated by their client certificates, see:

http://hg.rabbitmq.com/rabbitmq-auth-mechanism-ssl/file/rabbitmq_v3_0_2/README

and then specify auth_mechanism=external in URIs and you no longer need 
a password. (Hmm, the docs for that should be... more findable.)

Cheers, Simon

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Simon MacMullen
RabbitMQ, VMware