Auto generated WinRM special characters cause issues with Inspec

[GavBurke]

• Packer version from packer version
  1.0.4

• Host platform
  Ubuntu and COS

• The simplest example template and scripts needed to reproduce the bug.
  There isn't any repeatable way, just keep trying until the "random" password from Packer gives you a - at the start of the password, i.e. this one broke our build

inspec exec test-profile --backend winrm --host 10.21.128.67 --port 5986 --user dh-packer-build --password '-r=XQxq%&#%NNs4' --ssl --insecure --self-signed --no-distinct-exit --target-id packer-mswin-f5bfb2d3a0 --show-progress

You get the error back Please provide a value for --password. For example: --password=hello.

[azr]

Hello, thanks for reaching out; do you know if this still happens with the latest version of packer ? ( Currently 1.4.3 )
I'm asking because 1.0.4 was tagged on 11 Aug 2017, and there is a chance that your issue has been fixed since.

[GavBurke]

I am not sure, I'll see if I can quickly check that out

[github-actions]

This issue has been migrated to hashicorp/packer-plugin-inspec#18 due to the Packer Plugin split.

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