Kong.conf Postgresql Password can't contain '#'

[DanielTimLee]

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Summary

Kong.conf 's Postgresql Password can't contain # Value.

Steps To Reproduce

1. Set Postgres User's password containing #.
2. Set kong.conf's postgresql password.
3. sudo kong migrations up -c /etc/kong.conf

Additional Details & Logs

• Kong version ($ kong version) - 0.11.0
• Kong debug-level startup logs ($ kong start --vv)

2017/09/30 11:51:53 [verbose] Kong: 0.11.0
2017/09/30 11:51:53 [debug] ngx_lua: 10008
2017/09/30 11:51:53 [debug] nginx: 1011002
2017/09/30 11:51:53 [debug] Lua: LuaJIT 2.1.0-beta2
2017/09/30 11:51:53 [verbose] reading config file at /etc/kong.conf
2017/09/30 11:51:53 [debug] admin_access_log = "logs/admin_access.log"
2017/09/30 11:51:53 [debug] admin_error_log = "logs/error.log"
2017/09/30 11:51:53 [debug] admin_http2 = false
2017/09/30 11:51:53 [debug] admin_listen = "0.0.0.0:8001"
2017/09/30 11:51:53 [debug] admin_listen_ssl = "0.0.0.0:8444"
2017/09/30 11:51:53 [debug] admin_ssl = true
2017/09/30 11:51:53 [debug] anonymous_reports = true
2017/09/30 11:51:53 [debug] cassandra_consistency = "ONE"
2017/09/30 11:51:53 [debug] cassandra_contact_points = {"127.0.0.1"}
2017/09/30 11:51:53 [debug] cassandra_data_centers = {"dc1:2","dc2:3"}
2017/09/30 11:51:53 [debug] cassandra_keyspace = "kong"
2017/09/30 11:51:53 [debug] cassandra_lb_policy = "RoundRobin"
2017/09/30 11:51:53 [debug] cassandra_port = 9042
2017/09/30 11:51:53 [debug] cassandra_repl_factor = 1
2017/09/30 11:51:53 [debug] cassandra_repl_strategy = "SimpleStrategy"
2017/09/30 11:51:53 [debug] cassandra_schema_consensus_timeout = 10000
2017/09/30 11:51:53 [debug] cassandra_ssl = false
2017/09/30 11:51:53 [debug] cassandra_ssl_verify = false
2017/09/30 11:51:53 [debug] cassandra_timeout = 5000
2017/09/30 11:51:53 [debug] cassandra_username = "kong"
2017/09/30 11:51:53 [debug] client_body_buffer_size = "8k"
2017/09/30 11:51:53 [debug] client_max_body_size = "0"
2017/09/30 11:51:53 [debug] client_ssl = false
2017/09/30 11:51:53 [debug] custom_plugins = {}
2017/09/30 11:51:53 [debug] database = "postgres"
2017/09/30 11:51:53 [debug] db_cache_ttl = 3600
2017/09/30 11:51:53 [debug] db_update_frequency = 5
2017/09/30 11:51:53 [debug] db_update_propagation = 0
2017/09/30 11:51:53 [debug] dns_error_ttl = 1
2017/09/30 11:51:53 [debug] dns_hostsfile = "/etc/hosts"
2017/09/30 11:51:53 [debug] dns_no_sync = false
2017/09/30 11:51:53 [debug] dns_not_found_ttl = 30
2017/09/30 11:51:53 [debug] dns_order = {"LAST","SRV","A","CNAME"}
2017/09/30 11:51:53 [debug] dns_resolver = {}
2017/09/30 11:51:53 [debug] dns_stale_ttl = 4
2017/09/30 11:51:53 [debug] error_default_type = "text/plain"
2017/09/30 11:51:53 [debug] http2 = false
2017/09/30 11:51:53 [debug] latency_tokens = true
2017/09/30 11:51:53 [debug] log_level = "notice"
2017/09/30 11:51:53 [debug] lua_code_cache = "on"
2017/09/30 11:51:53 [debug] lua_package_cpath = ""
2017/09/30 11:51:53 [debug] lua_package_path = "?/init.lua;./kong/?.lua"
2017/09/30 11:51:53 [debug] lua_socket_pool_size = 30
2017/09/30 11:51:53 [debug] lua_ssl_verify_depth = 1
2017/09/30 11:51:53 [debug] mem_cache_size = "128m"
2017/09/30 11:51:53 [debug] nginx_daemon = "on"
2017/09/30 11:51:53 [debug] nginx_optimizations = true
2017/09/30 11:51:53 [debug] nginx_user = "nobody nobody"
2017/09/30 11:51:53 [debug] nginx_worker_processes = "auto"
2017/09/30 11:51:53 [debug] pg_database = "kong"
2017/09/30 11:51:53 [debug] pg_host = "0.0.0.0"
2017/09/30 11:51:53 [debug] pg_password = "******"
2017/09/30 11:51:53 [debug] pg_port = 5432
2017/09/30 11:51:53 [debug] pg_ssl = false
2017/09/30 11:51:53 [debug] pg_ssl_verify = false
2017/09/30 11:51:53 [debug] pg_user = "kong"
2017/09/30 11:51:53 [debug] prefix = "/usr/local/kong/"
2017/09/30 11:51:53 [debug] proxy_access_log = "logs/access.log"
2017/09/30 11:51:53 [debug] proxy_error_log = "logs/error.log"
2017/09/30 11:51:53 [debug] proxy_listen = "0.0.0.0:8000"
2017/09/30 11:51:53 [debug] proxy_listen_ssl = "0.0.0.0:8443"
2017/09/30 11:51:53 [debug] real_ip_header = "X-Real-IP"
2017/09/30 11:51:53 [debug] real_ip_recursive = "off"
2017/09/30 11:51:53 [debug] server_tokens = true
2017/09/30 11:51:53 [debug] ssl = true
2017/09/30 11:51:53 [debug] ssl_cipher_suite = "modern"
2017/09/30 11:51:53 [debug] ssl_ciphers = "ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305:ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256"
2017/09/30 11:51:53 [debug] trusted_ips = {}
2017/09/30 11:51:53 [debug] upstream_keepalive = 60
2017/09/30 11:51:53 [verbose] prefix in use: /usr/local/kong
2017/09/30 11:51:53 [verbose] running datastore migrations
Error: 
/usr/local/share/lua/5.1/kong/cmd/migrations.lua:34: [postgres error] could not retrieve current migrations: [postgres error] FATAL: password authentication failed for user "kong"
stack traceback:
        [C]: in function 'assert'
        /usr/local/share/lua/5.1/kong/cmd/migrations.lua:34: in function 'cmd_exec'
        /usr/local/share/lua/5.1/kong/cmd/init.lua:88: in function </usr/local/share/lua/5.1/kong/cmd/init.lua:88>
        [C]: in function 'xpcall'
        /usr/local/share/lua/5.1/kong/cmd/init.lua:88: in function </usr/local/share/lua/5.1/kong/cmd/init.lua:45>
        /usr/local/bin/kong:7: in function 'file_gen'
        init_worker_by_lua:41: in function <init_worker_by_lua:39>
        [C]: in function 'xpcall'
        init_worker_by_lua:48: in function <init_worker_by_lua:46>

• Kong error logs (<KONG_PREFIX>/logs/error.log)
• Kong configuration (registered APIs/Plugins & configuration file)
• Operating System
  Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS

[p0pr0ck5]

Hi,

This was corrected in Kong 0.11.0. Please see also #2885. Thank you!

[p0pr0ck5]

Sorry, to clarify on a point, octothorpes need to be escaped with a backslash to be treated as character literals in config values (e.g. a password foo#bar should be written as foo\#bar in the config file).