Leopard can’t handle ‘%’ in fileshare passwords

In Leopard if you try to connect to a remote server in the Finder and have ‘%’ in the password, NetAuthAgent will crash with a bus error. As reported on Macintouch (and indirectly on MacEnterprise). I’m not sure if this behaviour persists in 10.5.1.

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