| Summary: | The last character is stripped from password if reading it from STDIN | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Konstantin Andreev <pka> |
| Component: | passwd | Assignee: | Tomas Mraz <tmraz> |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Mike McLean <mikem> |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 8.0 | CC: | mitr |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | passwd-0.68-10 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2005-03-25 09:31:31 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | ||
| Bug Depends On: | 71152 | ||
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From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 95) Description of problem: The passwd.c indicates that this is by design error: passwd.c:L373 i = read(STDIN_FILENO, newPassword, sizeof(newPassword) - 1); newPassword[i - 1] = '\0'; I can assume this was done to strip line feed character when reading password from one-string files. This is not a correct behaviour. It's a user responsibility to supply just the data the user wants. For compatibility reasons you may correct this error by introducing new option like '--not-strip'. When this option applied, passwd should not strip the last character. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): passwd-0.67-3 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Execute in bash: echo -n boguspas | passwd --stdin someuser 2. Try to login as 'someuser' Actual Results: Can't login with 'boguspas', but can login with 'boguspa' password. Expected Results: Login with 'boguspas' password.