Deployment fails when there's hash(#) in DB password

[nobodyme]

Required Info:

• AWS ParallelCluster version - 3.6.0:

Bug description and how to reproduce:
We generate secrets in secrets manager and attach it to the DB. the secrets are sometimes generated with "#" in it. slurmdbd.conf on the other hand, thinks anything after "#" is a comment. This causes problems during deployment when we have configured slurmdb database connections via the pcluster config.

This is what you see in the logs when that happens - chef-client.log

Or if this is how we want it to be, a good error message would be nice to have.

[enrico-usai]

Hi @nobodyme thanks for pointing this out!
This is an interesting issue.

I'll track it as a bug, to see how we can improve user experience in cases like this.

Thanks!

[nobodyme]

Appreciate it, thanks