Bug 96986
| Summary: | rhn_register does not allow non-alphanumeric characters in the password | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Eric West <ewest> |
| Component: | rhn_register | Assignee: | Adrian Likins <alikins> |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Jay Turner <jturner> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 9 | CC: | gafton, jbills, mihai.ibanescu, srevivo |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | current RHN | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
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| Last Closed: | 2005-10-04 18:36:12 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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This bit me too using up2date v3.1.23 rel 2. Work-around: changed password to less secure password on rhn. Sigh... fixed via server side changes |
Description of problem: My password on RHN contains a non-alphanumeric character (e.g. "#"). I have no problem logging on to RHN via a browser. However, the rhn_register application refuses to accept the same set of password characters allowed on the RHN site. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): up2date v3.1.23 rel 1 How reproducible: repeatable Steps to Reproduce: 1. create a password on rhn (ex. zazo#xxx) 2. confirm rhn login works with the password 3. exec rhn_register with the same username and password used in (2) Actual results: Problem registering user name: Error Message: password contains character `#' Error Class Code: 15 Error Class Info: The username contains invalid characters. Explanation: An error has occurred while processing your request. If this problem persists please enter a bug report at bugzilla.redhat.com. If you choose to submit the bug report, please be sure to include details of what you were trying to do when this error occurred and details on how to reproduce this problem. Expected results: rhn_register succeeds Additional info: