Registration fails when having # in the registration key

[Alex Moldovan]

Landscape client registration is failing on version 14.01-0ubuntu3 when having the '#' (hash) character in the registration key. To reproduce the problem try to register a Trusty client with an account where the registration key has a '#' in it.

​​Examples from broker.log:

1) having 'ubuntuuser#' as registration key, broker.log shows:
'registration_password': u'ubuntuuser',
...and the registration fails with: "Invalid account name or registration key."

2) having 'ubuntu#user' as registration key, broker.log shows:
'registration_password': u'ubuntu',
..and the registration fails with: "Invalid account name or registration key."

​It looks like starting with the # everything is missing from the registration key. ​

I've tested registration with older landscape-client versions (precise,saucy) without any issues. This seems to be localized to the version that comes with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (14.01-0ubuntu3).

The workaround is not to use the '#' character in the registration key.

[🤖 Landscape Builder (landscape-builder)]

This bug has not seen any activity in the last 6 months, so it is being automatically closed.

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Landscape Team