Bug#406686: exim4: Client Auth Can't Handle Special Characters in Passwords

2007-02-06 Thread Steaphan Greene
On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 02:02:01PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > > Can you please try this new, simplified authenticator? Sorry I didn't reply sooner - I have been down sick. Yes, the changes which have propogated through etch have resolved the problems with all the symbols I was testing. Thank

Bug#406686: [Pkg-exim4-devel] Re: Bug#406686: exim4: Client Auth Can't Handle Special Characters in Passwords

2007-01-17 Thread Marc Haber
tags #406686 confirmed pending thanks On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 02:02:01PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 05:42:41PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 11:39:26AM -0500, Steaphan Greene wrote: > > > On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 05:35:14PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > >

Bug#406686: exim4: Client Auth Can't Handle Special Characters in Passwords

2007-01-14 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 05:42:41PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 11:39:26AM -0500, Steaphan Greene wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 05:35:14PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > > > Yes, and for the versions allowing unencrypted authentication as well. > > > I just wanted to know if

Bug#406686: exim4: Client Auth Can't Handle Special Characters in Passwords

2007-01-13 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 11:39:26AM -0500, Steaphan Greene wrote: > On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 05:35:14PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > > Yes, and for the versions allowing unencrypted authentication as well. > > I just wanted to know if the change works outside my lab. > > Yep, it seems to, but I only

Bug#406686: exim4: Client Auth Can't Handle Special Characters in Passwords

2007-01-13 Thread Steaphan Greene
On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 05:35:14PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > Yes, and for the versions allowing unencrypted authentication as well. > I just wanted to know if the change works outside my lab. Yep, it seems to, but I only tried my tests with test-passwords with shifted-number-keys (US QWERTY key

Bug#406686: exim4: Client Auth Can't Handle Special Characters in Passwords

2007-01-13 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 11:12:39AM -0500, Steaphan Greene wrote: > On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 04:02:37PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > > Can you try the following new plain authenticator? > > That one seems to work. I believe the same would have to be done for > login auth as well, right? Yes, and fo

Bug#406686: exim4: Client Auth Can't Handle Special Characters in Passwords

2007-01-13 Thread Steaphan Greene
On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 04:02:37PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > Can you try the following new plain authenticator? That one seems to work. I believe the same would have to be done for login auth as well, right? -- Steaphan Greene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Lecturer, Computer Science, Binghamton Univers

Bug#406686: Re: Bug#406686: exim4: Client Auth Can't Handle Special Characters in Passwords

2007-01-13 Thread Marc Haber
reopen #406686 retitle #406686 issues with ^ and : in client authentication data thanks On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 11:43:08AM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: > AUTH LOGIN and PLAIN will indeed fail with ^ since exim converts it to > a binary zero. Doubling the ^ in /etc/exim4/passwd.client will disable

Bug#406686: exim4: Client Auth Can't Handle Special Characters in Passwords

2007-01-13 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 09:49:30AM -0500, Steaphan Greene wrote: > The issue is apparently only with the "^" when using plain or login > auth. Replacing it with "^^" did solve the problem. I thought I had > found problems without the "^" and using other test symbols, but > apparently I had mad

Bug#406686: exim4: Client Auth Can't Handle Special Characters in Passwords

2007-01-13 Thread Steaphan Greene
On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 03:05:26PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > I cannot reproduce this. > > Please change your password in /etc/exim/passwd.client to something > containing $ or ^ (but _not_ being your password) and send me the > output of > > echo bla | exim4 -odq [EMAIL PROTECTED]; exim4 -d-all+

Bug#406686: exim4: Client Auth Can't Handle Special Characters in Passwords

2007-01-13 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 05:51:14PM -0500, Steaphan Greene wrote: > There seems to be no way to handle a password with special characters in > /etc/exim4/passwd.client. I can find no docs on this but have confirmed > that many special characters (including "^" and "$") in a password cause > exim

Bug#406686: closed by Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Re: Bug#406686: exim4: Client Auth Can't Handle Special Characters in Passwords)

2007-01-13 Thread Steaphan Greene
On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 03:18:22AM -0800, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > Both ^ and $ work without anyproblems for AUTH CRAM-MD5. $ works fine > too with AUTH LOGIN and AUTH PLAIN. > > AUTH LOGIN and PLAIN will indeed fail with ^ since exim converts it to > a binary zero. Doubling the ^ in /e

Bug#406686: exim4: Client Auth Can't Handle Special Characters in Passwords

2007-01-12 Thread Steaphan Greene
Package: exim4 Version: 4.63-12 Severity: important There seems to be no way to handle a password with special characters in /etc/exim4/passwd.client. I can find no docs on this but have confirmed that many special characters (including "^" and "$") in a password cause exim4 to not authentica