Bug 151328 - Up2date generates an error when a user's password begins with an asterisk
Summary: Up2date generates an error when a user's password begins with an asterisk
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 155379
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Classification: Red Hat
Component: up2date
Version: 4.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
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Assignee: Adrian Likins
QA Contact: Max Spevack
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-03-16 23:29 UTC by Steve Conklin
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:07 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2005-05-17 18:42:12 UTC
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Description Steve Conklin 2005-03-16 23:29:46 UTC
Description of problem:

 When a user's password begins with an asterisk, the up2date utility (both
graphical and text) returns with an error that the password cannot be all asterisks.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

Confirmed for:
up2date-4.2.57-2
and
up2date-4.4.5-1

How reproducible:
every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Attempt to enter a password that starts with an asterisk
2. Observe the result
3.
  
Actual results:

Error Message:
   password can not be all asterisks '*'
Error Class Code: 15
Error Class Info: The username contains invalid characters.
Explanation:
    An error has occurred while processing your request.  [...]

Expected results:
Should work

Additional info:
As a side note, the RHN web site DOES allow a password of all asterisks.

Comment 3 Adrian Likins 2005-04-19 18:14:59 UTC
Looks to be just reporting the error message the server is
sending back, so opening a bug against the server code. 

Keeping this bug open till the exception in the cli is handled
correctly.

Comment 4 Debbie McGrath 2005-05-05 14:32:29 UTC
Adding this to the RHN Update Agent for RHEL 3 U6 tracking bug - just to make
sure we don't lose it while making sure it's really only server side.


Comment 5 Adrian Likins 2005-05-17 18:42:12 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 155379 ***


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