[pkg-firebird-general] certain sysdba passwords make postinst throw up

[Tamas TEVESZ]

try one with a space.

the problem seems to be morefold than i can grok right now. originally 
i thought it's only a bad quotation (lack of it, thereof) in 
functions.sh like

-    writeNewPassword $NewPassword $VER
+    writeNewPassword "$NewPassword" $VER

but it turns out gsec has problems with that as well. or maybe not 
"problems" per se, but i couldn't figure out how to make it take a 
password of "almas pite" (sans quotes 'fcourse).

in interactive mode both "almas pite" and 'almas pite' met with an 
invalid parameter (which, again, after patching functions like above, 
make the gsec call throw it up), then i somehow managed to change it 
with pw supplied on the command line like

  gsec -user sysdba -password masterkey -modify sysdba -pw "almas retes"

which seems to have run fine (no errors returned), but then i don't 
have a freakin' idea what my sysdba password currently is. it's not

almas retes
almas
"almas
"almas retes"

or anything else i could cough up.

this is bad (not the fact that i lost my sysdba password, it doesn't 
matter, but the fact that something seems to be ad-hoc here. didn't 
yet read doc or source, so if someone would chime in a clue or two...)

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