#35 Password with special characters and Samba

[Anonymous]

Originally created by: baril...@gmail.com

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Go to Alt-F in the setup > users section
2. Create/change the password of a user and include special characters in the password
3. Try to connect to an authentication needed Samba share

What is the expected output?

Connect to the share when entering a valid user and password.

What do you see instead?

Can't connect.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

B7

Please provide any additional information below.

I also tested setting the password with SWAT and it worked
even if I choose a password with the exclamation character.

[Anonymous]

Originally posted by: augu...@bott.com.br

A similar problem happens when entering a password containing an exclamation mark (!) on the Mail Setup page (mail.cgi/mail_proc.cgi): the password is accepted fine, but the password line on /etc/msmtprc gets '%21' instead of the '!' character (therefore, authentication fails when the box tries to send any emails through an SMTP server requiring authentication). I've worked around this (particular problem) by editing /etc/msmtprc with vi on an SSH session and updating manually the correct/plain-text password (which is not a 'solution', I know... but it's been working with msmtp while we don't have a 'proper' fix).
I've taken a brief look at /usr/www/cgi-bin/mail_proc.cgi and at first sight, it looks like these problems might have something to do with function read_args() in /usr/www/cgi-bin/common.sh (used by every _proc.cgi script I've looked into, but not used by SWAT).
Hope this helps solving/fixing this issue.

[Anonymous]

Originally posted by: whoami.j...@gmail.com

Will ASCII only characters, no spaces, be OK for *all* passwords?

letters, numbers and ! " # $ % & ' ( ) * + , - . / : ; < = > ? @ [ \ ] ^ _ ` { | } ~

Status: Started

[Anonymous]

Originally posted by: whoami.j...@gmail.com

Can you please try the 0.1RC1-snapshot and see if password problems remain?

Letters, numbers and ! " # $ % & ' ( ) * + , - . / : ; < = > ? @ [ \ ] ^ _ ` { | } ~ are the only allowed characters in all passwords.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1555717/DNS-323/Alt-F/experimental/index.html

[Anonymous]

Originally posted by: whoami.j...@gmail.com

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Status: Fixed