Missing quotes in specifying args for $configArgs at install-vstsagent

[seriousscripts]

Following piece of code (line 294 - 298 in install-vsts):
[string[]]$configArgs = @('--unattended', '--url', "$ServerUrl", '--auth', ` 'pat', '--pool', "$Pool", '--agent', "$Name", '--runAsService') if ( $Replace ) { $configArgs += '--replace' } if ( $LogonCredential ) { $configArgs += '--windowsLogonAccount', $LogonCredential.UserName } if ( $Work ) { $configArgs += '--work', $Work }
Does not include quotes in the string. For instance "$Pool" will only pass the $Pool parameter and not put it in (single) quotes for the eventual command.

So for instance when passing a Agent pool name like Pool 001 the command line args will be "--pool Pool 001" and not "--pool 'Pool 001'.

Becouse of this the script is not able to handle Agent pools that contain spaces.

[jwittner]

Good find! PRs welcome! =)

[jwittner]

As a workaround, I believe that since the pool is just a string forwarded through you could surround it in quotes before passing it in.

[seriousscripts]

Yeah that workaround might work yea. I may actually look into updating some code on this DSC module. I'll take a look at contributing.

[tbalasavage]

I actually ran into this issue recently with a password. The password had an "&" for $LogonCredential.Password and was being interpreted and not included as part of the string literal.

Josh Wittner (@jwittner) I can add quotes to the variables and submit a PR.

I did a small test to understand what is occurring. In the example below, I quoted $cred.Password and placed it into the array and it's shown as the type System.Net.NetworkCredential.Password and not the string literal. Is that the expected behavior? Will this break functionality?

[jwittner]

@ps-tb - You're seeing that output because you have to wrap variables with $(<statement>) to access members if you want them to be interpolated into the string. So in your code, $cred is being turned into "System.Net.NetworkCredential" and then that's be joined with ".Password". To resolve this try, "$($cred.Password)".