Bug 98135 - Password and the '#' character
Summary: Password and the '#' character
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Status: CLOSED CANTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: up2date
Version: 9
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bret McMillan
QA Contact: Fanny Augustin
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks: 120092
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-06-26 21:31 UTC by Patrick Hallinan
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:55 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2007-01-02 18:31:14 UTC
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Description Patrick Hallinan 2003-06-26 21:31:19 UTC
From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030612

Description of problem:
The up2date configuration GUI accepts '#' in a proxy password but then it
doesn't use it.  I had the password "1Coffees#" and I wasn't able to get past my
proxy because the '#' character was left off the end of proxyPassword.

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


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set proxyPassword to xxxxxxx# 
2. Try to launch up2date through a proxy that requires authentication and the
password xxxxxxx#
3.
    

Actual Results:  Error: proxy requires authentication (or some message like that)

Expected Results:  up2date should have launched

Additional info:

none.

Comment 1 Adrian Likins 2003-07-23 21:43:45 UTC
hmm, indeed. 

Investigating.

Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2006-08-05 03:17:34 UTC
Red Hat apologizes that these issues have not been resolved yet. We do want to
make sure that no important bugs slip through the cracks.

Red Hat Linux 7.3 and Red Hat Linux 9 are no longer supported by Red Hat, Inc.
They are maintained by the Fedora Legacy project (http://www.fedoralegacy.org/)
for security updates only. If this is a security issue, please reassign to the
'Fedora Legacy' product in bugzilla. Please note that Legacy security update
support for these products will stop on December 31st, 2006.

If this is not a security issue, please check if this issue is still present
in a current Fedora Core release. If so, please change the product and version
to match, and check the box indicating that the requested information has been
provided.

If you are currently still running Red Hat Linux 7.3 or 9, please note that
Fedora Legacy security update support for these products will stop on December
31st, 2006. You are strongly advised to upgrade to a current Fedora Core release
or Red Hat Enterprise Linux or comparable. Some information on which option may
be right for you is available at http://www.redhat.com/rhel/migrate/redhatlinux/.

Any bug still open against Red Hat Linux 7.3 or 9 at the end of 2006 will be
closed 'CANTFIX'. Again, if this bug still exists in a current release, or is a
security issue, please change the product as necessary. We thank you for your
help, and apologize again that we haven't handled these issues to this point.


Comment 4 Bill Nottingham 2007-01-02 18:31:14 UTC
Red Hat Linux 7.3 and Red Hat Linux 9 are no longer supported by Red Hat, Inc.
f you are currently still running Red Hat Linux 7.3 or 9, you are strongly
advised to upgrade to a current Fedora Core release or Red Hat Enterprise Linux
or comparable. Some information on which option may be right for you is
available at http://www.redhat.com/rhel/migrate/redhatlinux/.

Closing as CANTFIX.


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