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Config edit breaks empty password field

A scripted config edit adds a newline and spaces into an empty password field, so the sync transfer fails to match the partner.

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8 public reports · first reported 25 September 2026 · last reported 2 October 2026

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What's going wrong

An operator found that an empty password field in a sync config file was rewritten with a line break and spaces, which made the program treat the whitespace as a password.

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