[pca] MOS user name with @ character?

[Martin Paul]

Stuart F. Biggar wrote:
> I'm a part time admin that has NO knowledge of perl.  I've been using pca for
> quite some time with a Sun user name of firstnamelastname with no punctuation
>  at all.  My new MOS account name is:  stuart.biggar at optics.arizona.edu.  I
> tried putting that into the USER line in pca where my old user name just
> worked.  I now get complaints about the @ symbol.  Is there a way to escape
> that or otherwise convince pca that my new user name is OK?

This works for me:

   "user||s|USER|user\@domain.org|My Oracle Support user name",
   "passwd||s|PASSWD|secret||My Oracle Support password",

I recommend setting user/passwd via some other means, though. Use a pca.conf or 
$HOME/.pca file (readable only for you), or set the PCA_USER/PCA_PASSWD 
variables via a protected .profile/.cshrc.

> I'm also having problems downloading patches if I try passing the user/passwd
>  on the command line.  I was able to log into MOS using a web browser and the
>  same use/passwd set before and after the failures with pca.  However I get
> the you are not authorized error with pca ...

Seems as if there are currently problems with downloading most of the patches. 
Check if 119254-78 works - this verfies that your setup is correct.

Martin.