Bug 1425097 - F26 wget does not honor .netrc
Summary: F26 wget does not honor .netrc
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: wget
Version: 26
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Tomáš Hozza
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-02-20 14:48 UTC by Bruce Jerrick
Modified: 2017-06-09 19:22 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version: wget-1.19.1-3.fc26
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2017-06-09 19:22:27 UTC
Type: Bug
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)
Fix dereferences, so .netrc is read. (481 bytes, patch)
2017-02-20 14:48 UTC, Bruce Jerrick
no flags Details | Diff
Add --netrc/--no-netrc option. (483 bytes, patch)
2017-02-20 14:49 UTC, Bruce Jerrick
no flags Details | Diff
Patch to 1.19.1 to add user/passwd and search_netrc traces, for testing. (991 bytes, patch)
2017-02-20 23:09 UTC, Bruce Jerrick
no flags Details | Diff

Description Bruce Jerrick 2017-02-20 14:48:19 UTC
Created attachment 1255721 [details]
Fix dereferences, so .netrc is read.

Description of problem:
'wget' does not actually honor ~/.netrc as advertised, due to a minor
  coding error.
Also, it does not support '--netrc' or '--no-netrc' options (which may be
intentional, but it seems that it should).

Version-Release number of selected component:
wget-1.19-1.fc26.src.rpm

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run wget to get your favorite password-protected download, with the
   site's username and passowrd included in ~/.netrc .
2. ls -ltu ~/.netrc

Actual results:
The download will fail due with "401 Unauthorized", and
  ~/.netrc will not have been accessed.

Expected results:
Successful download, and atime of ~/.netrc updated.

Additional info:
Patches included as attachments -- one to fix reading .netrc, the
  other to add the '--netrc/--no-netrc' option.  (Both are one-liners.)

Comment 1 Bruce Jerrick 2017-02-20 14:49:56 UTC
Created attachment 1255722 [details]
Add --netrc/--no-netrc option.

Comment 2 Bruce Jerrick 2017-02-20 15:03:25 UTC
Note that 'user' and 'password' are used slightly differenty in http.c vs.
ftp.c, hence the difference in dereferencing when determining whether they
are set.

Comment 3 Tomáš Hozza 2017-02-20 16:45:16 UTC
Do you see the same issue with 1.19.1?

Comment 4 Bruce Jerrick 2017-02-20 21:54:35 UTC
Give me a few minutes to get a spec file hacked up to build the source
tarball from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/wget/ (I don't see 1.19.1 in the F26
repo yet).
But in any case, 1.19.1 still seems wrong -- in http.c, the 20 lines or so
preceding the conditional call to search_netrc assumes that 'user' and
'passwd' are both non-NULL, because no matter what the outcome of the two if/else chains, they're both dereferenced by *user and *passwd .
So !user and !passwd are always false (if either was true, i.e., if either pointer was NULL, there would have been a segfault in the previous lines,
no?).
So the user/passwd test boils down to just !*passwd, if Mr. Boole has
anything to say about it.
(There may have been some confusion because similar code in ftp.c does
allow them to be NULL .)

From src/http.c:

   1878   /* Find the username with priority */
   1879   if (u->user)
   1880     *user = u->user;
   1881   else if (opt.user && (opt.use_askpass || opt.ask_passwd))
   1882     *user = opt.user;
   1883   else if (opt.http_user)
   1884     *user = opt.http_user;
   1885   else if (opt.user)
   1886     *user = opt.user;
   1887   else
   1888     *user = NULL;
   1889 
   1890   /* Find the password with priority */
   1891   if (u->passwd)
   1892     *passwd = u->passwd;
   1893   else if (opt.passwd && (opt.use_askpass || opt.ask_passwd))
   1894     *passwd = opt.passwd;
   1895   else if (opt.http_passwd)
   1896     *passwd = opt.http_passwd;
   1897   else if (opt.passwd)
   1898     *passwd = opt.passwd;
   1899   else
   1900     *passwd = NULL;
   1901 
   1902   /* Check for ~/.netrc if none of the above match */
   1903   if (opt.netrc && (!user || (!passwd || !*passwd)))
   1904     search_netrc (u->host, (const char **) user, (const char **) passwd, 0);

Comment 5 Bruce Jerrick 2017-02-20 22:51:39 UTC
OK, here's the results:

The 1.19.1 code works in the usual case where it has to get both user and passwd
from .netrc .

But unlike my patch, it does not work in the case where only "login" (user) is in
.netrc, and only the password is given on the command-line (via the '--password' option; one can't give just a password with the '"http://username:password@site/"
syntax ("Invalid user name")).
(Tested empirically; I trust Mr. Boole but not myself after 18 hours uptime.)

And there really ought to be a '--no-netrc' option (my main.c patch).

Comment 6 Bruce Jerrick 2017-02-20 23:05:57 UTC
I'm attaching a patch that adds traces and an early exit to http.c, to make testing easy.
(BTW, this isn't an "issue", it's a "problem" or a "bug".  "Issue" is a
euphemism dreamed up by Redmond marketeers.)

Comment 7 Bruce Jerrick 2017-02-20 23:09:07 UTC
Created attachment 1255894 [details]
Patch to 1.19.1 to add user/passwd and search_netrc traces, for testing.

This should tell everything one needs to know, without the need for
an http server.

Comment 8 Tomáš Hozza 2017-02-21 12:52:58 UTC
For the record, the 1.19.1 is available since 17-Feb.

https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=859637
https://src.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/wget.git/commit/?id=ea14f5739fbda9d257f9ffca11e028d18be66f26

Did you propose your fix to the upstream? If not, I can review your changes and report it to the upstream.

Comment 9 Bruce Jerrick 2017-02-22 16:34:39 UTC
(In reply to Tomas Hozza from comment #8)
> ...
> Did you propose your fix to the upstream? If not, I can review your changes
> and report it to the upstream.

No, I haven't -- please do.
Thank you.

Comment 10 Fedora End Of Life 2017-02-28 12:23:38 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 26 development cycle.
Changing version to '26'.

Comment 11 Tomáš Hozza 2017-05-12 17:18:35 UTC
I just sent changes to the upstream. Will wait for their response.

Comment 13 Fedora Update System 2017-06-02 11:27:30 UTC
wget-1.19.1-3.fc26 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 26. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-38c3781b89

Comment 14 Tomáš Hozza 2017-06-02 11:28:03 UTC
fixed in:
wget-1.19.1-3.fc26
wget-1.19.1-3.fc27

Comment 15 Fedora Update System 2017-06-04 19:40:33 UTC
wget-1.19.1-3.fc26 has been pushed to the Fedora 26 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-38c3781b89

Comment 16 Fedora Update System 2017-06-09 19:22:27 UTC
wget-1.19.1-3.fc26 has been pushed to the Fedora 26 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.


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