From 5d90159bb373450f907ba045fb4786e378353bb9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kofl <thomas@kofler.tk>
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2025 15:39:41 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Update README with Docker Compose $ escaping instructions

Add note about escaping $ in Docker Compose environment variables.
---
 README.md | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index ed0c42e..075c5a3 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -169,6 +169,10 @@ webui:
   environment:
     AUTH_USER_PASS: "username:$2y$10$DSTi9o..."
 ```
+Docker Compose treats $ as the start of an environment variable.
+Since bcrypt hashes can contain $ characters, Compose will try to substitute them and may emit warnings or truncate the value.
+To pass a literal $, you must escape it as $$
+
 
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