From 11fdf0a7e920dadcc0acfffa04f900323a7630ce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Gage <1203580+mgage@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2021 09:17:39 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Update site.conf.dist

---
 conf/site.conf.dist | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/conf/site.conf.dist b/conf/site.conf.dist
index 6a5b46e051..29c227f8b1 100644
--- a/conf/site.conf.dist
+++ b/conf/site.conf.dist
@@ -86,6 +86,9 @@ $server_root_url   = '';   # e.g.  'https://webwork.yourschool.edu' or 'http://l
 
 
 $webwork_server_admin_email ='';
+# password strings (or any other string allowing special characters) should be specified inside single quotes
+# otherwise a string such as "someone@nowhere" will interpolate the contents of the array @nowhere -- which is probably
+# empty, but still not what you want.  Similar things happen with % and $
 ################################################################################
 # Paths to external programs
 ################################################################################
@@ -244,7 +247,10 @@ $database_character_set=($ENABLE_UTF8MB4) ? 'utf8mb4' : 'utf8';
 # DATABASE login information
 # The following two variables must match the GRANT statement run on the mysql server as described above.
 $database_username ="webworkWrite";
-$database_password ="passwordRW";
+$database_password ='passwordRW';
+# password strings (or any other string allowing special characters) should be specified inside single quotes
+# otherwise a string such as "someone@nowhere" will interpolate the contents of the array @nowhere -- which is probably
+# empty, but still not what you want.  Similar things happen with % and $
 
 #################################################################################
 # These variables describe the locations of various components of WeBWorK on your