With a quick test I can't reproduce this with %40 as encoding, but I will try some more later.
I would highly recommend to NOT write your authentication information in sources.list through. Beside the parsing problem you seem to encounter, you can't reasonably change the permission of the file (it has to be world-readable to have apt-based tools in a functional state). Instead, create the file /etc/apt/auth.conf and and use the netrc(5) format to specify the authentication tokens. You can change the access permissions to this file to your liking (600 for example) as a bonus. Example: echo 'machine example.org\nlogin star\npassword hunter2' > /etc/apt/auth.conf -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1558484 Title: Ubuntu 12.04: apt-get can't parse repository url if username contains @ ('at' sign) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1558484/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
