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Description of problem: system-config-printer and several other GUI tools require root pw for certain tasks. If root pw contains some special characters this login fails, indicating that some special chars are not being properly escaped before being passed on. This may be a security issue and any special chars should certainly be being trapped and correctly processed. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 1.5.7 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. set root pw to include a pair brace characters : {} 2. start system-config-printer 3. attempt to unlock and respond by supplying root pw. Actual results: "Authentication failed Wrong password ?" Expected results: pw was valid : expect it to be accepeted. Additional info: changing root pw to a banal sequence to test gets accepted. The problem is clearly caused by these chars. Checks should be made as to what other specials are not being trapped and whether this could be exploited. In any case these are legit system passwords an should work. This may need assigning to library component since I don't think it is specific to system-config-printer but the login widget.
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