Just for the record, when hand-editing my cupsd/printers.conf, I found that simply %-escaping problematic characters in passwords would work just fine. I imagine %, /, :, and @ at least should be escaped (i.e. %25, %2F, %3A, and %40, respectively). Sorry if this is so trivial as to be useless ...
-- scrambles connection fields with certain chars in the password https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/18315 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs