From 4005cfdff25bee1356c14a7616d8f239481b2c32 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2022 00:58:11 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Disallow passwords that start with - to allow for future
 addition of options

---
 kitty/options/utils.py | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kitty/options/utils.py b/kitty/options/utils.py
index e0ffbab9b..9ab74d042 100644
--- a/kitty/options/utils.py
+++ b/kitty/options/utils.py
@@ -679,6 +679,10 @@ def remote_control_password(val: str, current_val: Dict[str, str]) -> Iterable[T
     val = val.strip()
     if val:
         parts = to_cmdline(val, expand=False)
+        if parts[0].startswith('-'):
+            # this is done so in the future we can add --options to the cmd
+            # line of remote_control_password
+            raise ValueError('Passwords are not allowed to start with hyphens, ignoring this password')
         if len(parts) == 1:
             yield parts[0], tuple()
         else: