Handling symbols with JSch authentication

Question

I am getting JSch authentication failure when my password contains characters like *, !. May I know if there is a list of characters that need to be escaped and what's the correct way to escape them?

For !, I tried password = password.replace("!", "^!") in scala and it works, but same doesn't work for *. If anyone faced similar issue or can guide me in this regard, it will be helpful.

Thanks!

Answer 1

I figured it out. This works if I use URLEncoder to encode the password and decoder to decode it again.