CircleCI gives "invalid user credentials" error while password is correct

Question

I am using Fastlane-Pilot to upload builds to iTunesConnect.

I add required Fastlane environment variables:

1. FASTLANE_PASSWORD
2. PILOT_USERNAME

to CircleCI's Environment Variables (https://circleci.com/gh/:your-name/edit#env-vars).

However Pilot command fails with "Invalid user credentials" error.

And when I use the same password in my local machine, it succeeds.

Answer 1

I added a line to my circle.yml to debug my environment variables as they are not available even during SSH session:

echo ${ENV_VAR_NAME}

and I saw that CircleCI didn't take all of the password that I put into Environment Variables through their UI. My password had several special symbols and CircleCI couldn't escape them correctly.

I hope they will fix that in the future but for now, you shouldn't use that kind of passwords with CircleCI