Accounts with Spaces in Password

[Zac Garrett <zg@…>]

I am trying to connect to a jabber (google talk) account that has spaces in the password. When I added the account said:

Warning: Passing a servername/other flags to `account add' is now deprecated. Use `account set' instead.

I tried 'account set #/password long password with spaces' which resulted in "Setting changed successfully". However the password did not take. 'account set #' states "password is empty".

I saw that bug ​#224 was the same issue, but that was closed 3 years ago, so I believe there is a different root cause.

[wilmer]

You have to quote arguments that have spaces in them. So something like:

account add jabber foo@facebook "password with spaces"

Not sure where this is documented, TBH I'm not sure what would be a good place to do that. Suggestions are welcome.

[Zac Garrett <zg@…>]

Ahh, that did work. The worst part is I even tried that with account set. However there seems to be another issue with account set # not showing that a password is set. For me all of my accounts (msn, oscar, and jabber) show as password is empty, even though they are all connected.

[anonymous]

I'm trying this on the public server at im.bitlbee.org, which is running version VERSION BitlBee 3.2.2 Linux/x86_64

but it does not work

[dx]

Saying "it does not work" isn't very informative. What error? You should join #bitlbee in irc.oftc.net and we'll help.