cloudFoundryDeploy fails when SAP password contain special characters

[SayakMukhopadhyay]

Hello

I am encountering an issue where the library step cloudFoundryDeploy fails if the password contains special characters. Below is a snippet of the relevant log with some data redacted

info  cloudFoundryDeploy - running command: cf version
info  cloudFoundryDeploy - cf version 8.7.10+5b7ce3c.2024-04-04
info  cloudFoundryDeploy - Logging in to Cloud Foundry
info  cloudFoundryDeploy - Logging into Cloud Foundry..
info  cloudFoundryDeploy - running command: cf login -a https://api.cf.us10-001.hana.ondemand.com/ -o redacted -s dev -u **** -p ****
info  cloudFoundryDeploy - API endpoint: https://api.cf.us10-001.hana.ondemand.com/
info  cloudFoundryDeploy - 
info  cloudFoundryDeploy - 
info  cloudFoundryDeploy - Authenticating...
info  cloudFoundryDeploy - 
info  cloudFoundryDeploy - Error Code: 401
info  cloudFoundryDeploy - Password: API endpoint:   https://api.cf.us10-001.hana.ondemand.com/
info  cloudFoundryDeploy - API version:    3.167.0
info  cloudFoundryDeploy - Raw Response: {"error":"invalid_client","error_description":"{\"error\":\"invalid_grant\",\"error_description\":\"User authentication failed: Unauthorized\"}"}
info  cloudFoundryDeploy - Not logged in. Use 'cf login' or 'cf login --sso' to log in.
info  cloudFoundryDeploy - Unable to authenticate.
info  cloudFoundryDeploy - FAILED

In fact, I checked how cf CLI would behave if I omit quoting my password in my local desktop and the logs are the same. Locally, quoting my password was enough to get things working. Moreover, when I changed my password to remove all special characters, this error didn't happen in Jenkins and the login was successful.

Related to #32.

[anilkeshav27]

in which secret store do you store the password ?, is it jenkins / vault or something else

[SayakMukhopadhyay]

I am storing it in Jenkins' System store. I believe the issue lies in cloudfoundry/Authentication.go in the following lines

jenkins-library/pkg/cloudfoundry/Authentication.go

Lines 43 to 50 in 7090297

	var cfLoginScript = append([]string{
	"login",
	"-a", options.CfAPIEndpoint,
	"-o", options.CfOrg,
	"-s", options.CfSpace,
	"-u", options.Username,
	"-p", options.Password,
	}, options.CfLoginOpts...)

As you can see, the password will be appended to -p verbatim. Thus is the password is abc$123, the appended string will become -p abc$123 which will be an issue in both linux and windows shells. Same is also true if the username contains a special character.

[anilkeshav27]

thanks for pointing it out, will get to you

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[SayakMukhopadhyay]

not stale @SAP/jenkins-library-team

[agiguere]

we are facing a similar issue, the SAP support told us it could be related to the technical user password, we removed any special characters but it does not work (CICD CF login via technical user with a custom IDP like IAS) ... however we can log in via the CLI without any problem with the same technical user

[p41l1]

We are facing a similar issue. We had to remove special characters from the password. After that the login worked just fine again.

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