Failing to access PAN with a password that contain the letter '#' (pound)

Palo Alto Networks
#1

Access to PAN with '#' in the password is failing due to


https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/Management-Articles/XML-API-Issue-with-passwords-containing-special-character-Unable/ta-p/146309


The '#' needs to be replaced with '%23' when entering it in the HTTPs credentials.

For example: "pass#ord" should be entered as "pass%23ord"

The SSH password should be entered as-is with the '#' (i.e. "pass#ord")


#2

Nice catch!

#3

this is a good one for our known issues. thanks for sharing

#4

Good one. Thank you for sharing!

#5

Ok, so just to be clear then, in my environement where I discovered this, we would create two credential sets instead of one and break out HTTPS and SSH into two sets? The HTTPS set would have %23 in place of the # and the SSH one would just be normal as you said?