On February 14, 2005 16:57, Isaac Clerencia wrote: > > Kppp writes wrong password to pap-secrets when I use password contained > > non-alphanumeric characters. > > For example, for password user: test password: "` it writes > > "test" ""`" > > instead of > > "test" '\"\`' > > I've tryed to reproduce the bug but kppp stores the password > in .kde/share/config/kppprc instead of *-secrets here and stores the > password correctly: > Name=my_connection > Password="` > > How have you managed to get kppp to store the password in *-secrets? It > shouldn't touch that files (and it shouldn't have permission to edit them > if you just add a user to the "dip" group and run kppp with that user).
kppp is now SUID root by default. When it runs, it splits into a privileged backend and an unprivileged frontend. The SUID backend actually renames /etc/ppp/*-secrets, and creates its own versions of those files, filling them with the password information stored in ~/.kde/share/config/kppprc. On disconnect, it removes these files, and puts the originals back. Perhaps the problem occurs when the password is moved to the new *-secrets file, from kppprc. Incidentally, this looks somewhat related to the problems of KDE #91235 and #61786. Cheers, Christopher Martin
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