Centos 6.3: Can't add Users

Jeroen van Meeuwen vanmeeuwen at kolabsys.com
Fri Aug 10 00:46:11 CEST 2012


On Thursday, August 09, 2012 06:49:33 PM Johannes Graumann wrote:
> Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
> > To be honest, I only have a very limited number of educated guesses:
> > 
> > - Does your password contain any special characters?
> > 
> > I'm primarly thinking of characters like double-quote (", ends the
> > string), dollar ($, variable expansion), exclamation mark (!, doesn't work
> > really well in bash, try: echo "!hello").
> > 
> > We could try changing the web-admin code to use single quotes / some shell
> > escaping for double quotes.
> > 
> >> Thank you for your patience.
> > 
> 
> BINGO! Password contains '"' - please robustizise the code! Should I log a
> wishlist item somewhere?
> 

Yeah, https://bugzilla.kolabsys.com please. I'll try to get Aleksander 
Machniak take a look at this piece of the code (he's an actual developer and 
good at it too).

Kind regards,

Jeroen van Meeuwen

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Systems Architect, Kolab Systems AG

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