Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 77999
When a password with the # sign is used it does not recognise it.
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:48:30 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0) Description of problem: When a password with the # sign is used it does not recognise it. When i try to login the swat with the root password having a # sign in it, it does not recognise the password. Same if ftping or telneting to the linux box or out to another box. Its like it is send a different symbol instead of the # sign. If i type a # sign in the the terminal window I see a # sign, it seems to be only in the password where the problem is I have the Keyboard set to a UK keyboard. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Use The # sign in a password to access swat or telnet or ftp 2. 3. Actual Results: access denied Expected Results: access granted Additional info:
might be due to URL encoding - I'll have a look at it
Actually, this is sounding like a generic 'code page' issue. Should we convert passwords between code pages prior to checking them - which is fine for SWAT, but only in 3.0. However, things like FTP are a bit different. (and not relevent here). Andrew Bartlett
I've commited a change to Samba HEAD that should convert your username/password into our 'unix' charset. I have no idea if it would actually help, as it depends very much on what charset the password was hashed in, but it seems a better idea than just assuming it doesn't matter.