Bug 11035

Summary:	Escape characters in password of some encrypted devices make problems.
Product:	hal	Reporter:	Reza Mohammadi <reza>
Component:	misc	Assignee:	David Zeuthen (not reading bugmail) <zeuthen>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	minor
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux (All)
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Reza Mohammadi 2007-05-22 07:16:38 UTC

I have a usb hard drive with one encrypted partition. When I turn on my computer and my hard is plugged, cryptdisks-early service ask my password and all things are ok. But when I turn on my computer and plug the hard when gnome is started, /usr/lib/hal/scripts/linux/hal-luks-setup-linux asks my password. I have "\" character in my password and it is escaped in this line of that script:

if ! echo "$PASSWORD" | $CRYPTSETUP luksOpen $HAL_PROP_BLOCK_DEVICE luks_crypto_$HAL_PROP_VOLUME_UUID  2> /dev/null; then

It's not so bad! I have a device which accepts two different passwords depending on the situation, one with one backslash and the other with two backslashes; It's more secure! :D

Comment 1 chemtech 2013-03-25 09:16:46 UTC

Reza Mohammadi,
Do you still experience this issue with newer soft ?
Please check the status of your issue.
Or close this bug.

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