Hacktoberfest 2026: the issues maintainers tagged for October, open and beginner-friendly. Browse Hacktoberfest issues

device connect fail and logs show Auth fail

Open
#69 1 comment 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

Nobody has claimed this yet.

Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
java
Domain
networking

Research direction

Start by reproducing the connection failure with a password containing '@', using the connection-creation path described in the issue, and inspect the authentication logs. Done means a connection can be created with the reported password and authentication no longer fails.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Description

The authentication failed issue (Auth fail)after I tried to create a connection, which didn't happen before, I don't know why, I've provided the correct parameters, the only difference is that the password contains the '@' character.

Dominant language
Java
Stars
90
Forks
64
No merged PRs in 30d

Contributor guide

No contributing guide indexed for this repository

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

More from Juniper/netconf-java

All issues in Juniper/netconf-java

Similar issues

More Java issues

Get new issues in your inbox

A short digest of beginner-friendly GitHub issues.