I am trying to copy a show tech from an ASA to a remote server via FTP. My issue is that the password I am providing has a '@' and it is being interpreted incorrectly by the CLI. I have tried putting a '\@' but the command still fails.
Anyone have any luck with this?
This works
show tech-support file ftp://username:[email protected]/ASA-SHOW-TECH
This Does not work
show tech-support file ftp://username:p@[email protected]/ASA-SHOW-TECH
The problem here is that the device is interpreting the first @ as the delimiter between the credentials and the FTP server address.
Perhaps configuring the username and password in global-configuration mode and then redirecting the show tech without specifying the credentials would do the trick. Otherwise, and I know this is a wimpy solution, changing the password to not include that one character may be the easiest and perhaps most secure way of working around this issue.
ip ftp username and ip ftp password in global configuration mode to set a default username and password for FTP connections.
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Jun 17, 2013 at 21:56
On IOS you can enter control-v to escape the next character. This lets you enter a question mark without pulling up help. Don't if that works on ASA but might be worth a try.
It does not seem like it is supported, so the work around is to just change the password that does not have the @ special character if you need to automate the process.
This works for ios not sure if it will work for the ASA
https://supportforums.cisco.com/discussion/9945506/entering-question-mark-ios-command
