Manage Special characters in UI

[sujitt]

It feels primitive in this day and age to be able to have special data entry requirements to escape special characters.
Example passwords , arguments values. example to enter a $ sighn in a field you need $$ for \ you need \\ for ! in password you need to put it in resource files.

These are work arounds and not good for any mature product. I am fed up of training and letting users know of these little nuances.

Please make changes to make this a better product to use for the user community.

thanks

[tmcdonald]

Unfortunately the issue of escaping in general lies deeper than just Nagios products - indeed, MySQL, PHP, and other components that we rely on require escaping in one form or another. We could possibly work on our end to hide/obscure some of these technological artifacts, but the underlying causes are decades-old. I'll talk to the devs and see if they have anything to add.