mac including user / pass in command line with fmsadmin not working

[truelifeajf]

Does anyone know why, in the Terminal, this, on OS X 10.8:

 

fmsadmin list files

 

Works, if when requested I enter my user / pass.

 

But this:

 

fmsadmin -u myusername -p mypassword list files

 

returns:

 

fmsadmin: permission denied

Error: 9 (Access denied)

 

??

[Wim Decorte]

The simple explanation would be that the username and pw you provide are not correct.  Or not correct as interpreted by the CLI

 

Do either contain spaces or other non-command line compatible characters?

 

as an aside: If it works without credentials why would you try and send credentials?

[truelifeajf]

Ah.... non-command line compatible characters... that'll be it as my password contains lots of non alpha-numerics.

 

I'm needing to trigger a backup remotely so figured using the command line would be the only way.

 

Actually, I do believe I was inspired by another post where yourself mentioned that a FM client could run a "perform script on server" which in turn performed "send event". Nice one