How do I mask "forbidden" chars in passwords in the mount command?
Solution 1:
Use URL encoding to protect the wonky characters in the password. Essentially each character (or byte of UTF-8) can be encoded as a %
followed by two hex digits specifying the encoded byte. In your example, \
-> %5C
and @
-> %40
:
mount -t afp afp://adminname:aaaaa%5C%4011111@ServerIPAddress/ShareName /Volumes/TimeMachine
This worked in my test.