mythconverg_backup.pl bails on MySQL passwords with special characters

[comptona@…]

My MythTV database password includes a # (thanks goodpassword.com!), and the mythconverg_backup script fails:

mysqldump exited with status: 2
mysqldump output:
mysqldump: Got error: 1045: Access denied for user 'mythtv'@'localhost' (using password: YES) when trying to connect

I found that surrounding the password in the defaults file with quotes fixes this issue. I've attached a patch for mythconverg_backup.pl; presumably a similar issue/fix exists with the restore script, but I haven't had the chance to test it. The bug exists in the current trunk version of this script (which I downloaded per ​http://www.mythbuntu.org/Upgrading).

[comptona@…]

patch to fix mythconverg_backup.pl

[mdean]

(In [22950]) Fixes #7612. Allow backup and restore scripts to work with #, ', ", and whitespace in passwords. Thanks to comptona for finding the issue and a fix.