Bug 11162

Summary:	IPFire does not support passwords with shell metacharacters
Product:	IPFire	Reporter:	chrish
Component:	---	Assignee:	Assigned to nobody - feel free to grab it and work on it <nobody>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	Major Usability
Priority:	Will only affect a few users	CC:	michael.tremer, peter.mueller
Version:	2
Hardware:	unspecified
OS:	Unspecified
See Also:	https://bugzilla.ipfire.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11725

Description chrish 2016-08-06 02:51:13 UTC

When a PPP account has a password that has shell metacharacters, the "PASSWORD" entry for that account gets filtered out by readhash, which causes the password in the secrets file to be an empty string. This obviously causes PPP not to work for these cases.

Comment 1 Peter Müller 2018-05-08 15:58:51 UTC

This was in the wrong category. Moved.