Bug 77999

Summary:	When a password with the # sign is used it does not recognise it.
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	P H <paddy667>
Component:	samba	Assignee:	Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:	Mike McLean <mikem>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	8.0	CC:	abartlet
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Description P H 2002-11-17 03:56:48 UTC

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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)

Description of problem:
When a password with the # sign is used it does not recognise it.
When i try to login the swat with the root password having a # sign in it, it 
does not recognise the password.
Same if ftping or telneting to the linux box or out to another box.
Its like it is send a different symbol instead of the # sign.
If i type a # sign in the the terminal window I see a # sign, it seems to be 
only in the password where the problem is
I have the Keyboard set to a UK keyboard.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Use The # sign in a password to access swat or telnet or ftp
2.
3.
	

Actual Results:  access denied

Expected Results:  access granted

Additional info:

Comment 1 Andrew Bartlett 2002-12-29 00:29:42 UTC

might be due to URL encoding - I'll have a look at it

Comment 2 Andrew Bartlett 2003-01-26 23:56:38 UTC

Actually, this is sounding like a generic 'code page' issue.  Should we convert
passwords between code pages prior to checking them - which is fine for SWAT, but 
only in 3.0.  However, things like FTP are a bit different.  (and not relevent
here).  

Andrew Bartlett

Comment 3 Andrew Bartlett 2003-02-01 06:22:52 UTC

I've commited a change to Samba HEAD that should convert your username/password
into our 'unix' charset.   I have no idea if it would actually help, as it
depends very much on what charset the password was hashed in, but it seems a
better idea than just assuming it doesn't matter.