User names cannot be used with escape characters.

[qw1mb0]

/kind bug

What happened:
We have a user named user\sa-DevopsProvisioner with which we want to order disks.

What you expected to happen:
If you use the username in vsphere.conf:
user = 'user\sa-DevopsProvisioner' we get the controller error:

time="2019-07-05T11:15:14Z" level=fatal msg="grpc failed" error="2:8: unquoted '\\' must be followed by new line or double quote"

If you use the username
user = 'user\\sa-DevopsProvisioner' we get the controller error:

time="2019-07-05T11:15:14Z" level=fatal msg="grpc failed" error="2:8: unquoted '\\' must be followed by new line or double quote"

If you use the username
user = "user\\sa-DevopsProvisioner" we get the controller error:

E0705 11:17:42.653946       1 connection.go:63] Failed to create govmomi client. err: ServerFaultCode: Cannot complete login due to an incorrect user name or password.
W0705 11:17:42.655611       1 credentialmanager.go:77] Cannot get secret  in namespace . error: "secret \"\" not found"
W0705 11:17:42.655650       1 credentialmanager.go:54] secret "" not found in namespace ""
E0705 11:17:42.655660       1 credentialmanager.go:68] credentials not found for server "p-vc-3.hq.ru.corp.leroymerlin.com"
E0705 11:17:42.655678       1 connectionmanager.go:153] Failed to get credentials from Secret Credential Manager with err:Credentials not found

If you use the username
user = "user\sa-DevopsProvisioner" we get the controller error:

time="2019-07-05T11:18:25Z" level=error msg="Failed to parse config. Err: 2:16: unknown escape sequence"

How can I use a username with escape characters?

How to reproduce it (as minimally and precisely as possible):

Anything else we need to know?:

Environment:

• vsphere-cloud-controller-manager version: gcr.io/cloud-provider-vsphere/vsphere-csi:v0.2.0
• OS (e.g. from /etc/os-release): Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS
• Kernel (e.g. uname -a):
• Install tools:
• Others:

[dvonthenen]

@qw1mb0 How were you able to create a user account user\sa-DevopsProvisioner in the vCenter Server? The \ is an invalid character in a vSphere username/account.

[qw1mb0]

In this case, it turned out that user is a domain, corrected the user on sa-DevopsProvisioner@domain.example.com and everything began to work correctly