URI parsing syntax does not permit for specifying AD Domain. [RVC 1.7.0][2012-10-02]

[Logos01]

The current authentication model of RVC does not permit for logins for any vCenter user that is required to declare their AD Domain in order to successfully authenticate against the server.

[ RFC2396 -- https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt -- Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax ] seems to be the syntax by which the login credentials given to RVC are parsed, but they do not permit for the syntax of "DOMAIN\user@hostname"

Without this functionality I have no capability to even attempt a login against my credentials for my vCenter server.

[Logos01]

Modifying line 37 in rvc-1.7.0/lib/rvc/modules/vim.rb to be:
username = URI.decode(uri.user) || ENV['RBVMOMI_USER']

Allows for the use of "%5C" in lieu of the plaintext backslash or escaped backslash in prompt as a work-around to enable authentication with AD Domain declared.

[StrangeWill]

I was the one that helped Logos01 by poking at this, I'll look into making a pull request that properly escapes/unescapes connection data on the vim schema hopefully later today.

[cdickmann]

Thanks for working on a patch. Please include an array of unit tests with this change to make sure the new implementation is strictly better than the old one.

[patrobinson]

Although it's nice to just set the env this commit appears to fix it codemonkeyjohn@001e52c but still hasn't been merged?

[wmotti]

Any news?

[StrangeWill]

I've had a pull request open for two years that fixes this, bug VMware at this point. :\

[ilosamart]

It seems that VMWare abandoned this repo.