Bug#792831: ejabberd: issues with passwords with special characters

2015-07-20 Thread Philipp Huebner
Hi, this is quite an important bug you have found here, thank you for reporting it! Debugging the postinst by adding a "set -x" to /var/lib/dpkg/info/ejabberd.postinst revealed, that the bug is not in the debconf part, but in ejabberdctl. What you have seen is ejabberdctl's reaction to ejabberdc

Bug#792831: ejabberd: issues with passwords with special characters

2015-07-18 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: ejabberd Version: 15.03-1 Severity: normal Hi. There seem to be several issues when using special characters in the debconf questions for the password of the admin user. 1) For example, the password: 3SN);&TI"qpNxD/4m3.3?*eK>7/vtH,Z leads to the following error: # dpkg-reconfigure ejab