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SteamCMD not working if password includes certain special characters #9341

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PepperKats opened this issue Apr 12, 2023 · 1 comment
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  • Steam client version (build number or date): Steam Console Client (c) Valve Corporation - version 1679680174
  • Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Rocky Linux
  • Opted into Steam client beta?: No
  • Have you checked for system updates?: Yes

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When using a password including certain special characters, it can become impossible to log in. My password includes !, which appears to break things.

When logging in, it will consistently give an error claiming an invalid password, despite the password being correct. I tried running it all as one command, but got an error from bash saying "event not found". When I opened "steamcmd.sh" to see if I could get an idea of what was wrong, I saw that there were double quotes instead of single quotes. I believe the script is attempting to parse my password

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  1. Change password to include !, like some password managers will do
  2. Attempt to sign in
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KOTHBio commented May 2, 2024

For whatever reason the ! breaks the steamcmd login, probably has something to do with how steam reads text (might think the ! is some sort of start to code or something) best bet is to remove it

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