Project Variables - AppPoolUser Username Issue

[DocOck (Alex)]

Hi All,

For a project we’re working on at my company, we specified the AppPoolUser to be AppLogSecret$svc (not exact name, for security reasons).

Apparently, due to the $ sign location, it is skipping the dollar sign and everything after it, only displaying AppLogSecret. Is this a username requirements issue? We would prefer not to change the service account name we created.

Thanks,

Alex

[Alex.Rolley]

Hi @DocOck,

Thanks for getting in touch!

I’ve done some testing at this end and have confirmed that (at least for the version of Octopus that I am using) it allows AppLogSecret$svc as a valid AppPoolUser:

Which when deployed get’s me a valid user for the AppPool

So I can investigate what is happening with your deployments are you able to let me know which version of Octopus you are using so I can validate behaviour, and if there is any differences in how I’ve configured the user?

I look forward to hearing from you shortly,

Regards,
Alex

[DocOck (Alex)]

Hi Alex,

Thank you for reply and testing. We are going to test this again since we recently upgraded Octopus to 2018.4.7. In the previous version we were using, the $ sign convention did not work.

I will let you know how this test goes for us.

Thank you again for your assistance.

–Alex

[Alex.Rolley]

Hi Alex,

No problems, let me know how you go!

Regards
Alex

[DocOck (Alex)]

Hi Alex,

We tested this again with Octopus 2018.4.7 and it is now working fine. It may have just been the previous version we were on.

Thank you again!

[Alex.Rolley]

Thanks Alex, glad to hear that the issue is sorted.

Let me know if there is anything else that we can assist with!

Regards,
Alex