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Bug #11715

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Base64 encoded Passwords get re-encoded on unattended/built call

Added by Nils Domrose over 8 years ago. Updated over 5 years ago.

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Closed
Priority:
Normal
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Category:
Host creation
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Description

Base64 encoded Passwords (i.e. used for windows template deployments) get re-encoded after a call to the built URL is made resulting in Base64 in Base64 encoded passwords.

Steps to reproduce:
  • create a operatingsystem with hash type base64
  • create a machine and set a password
  • as long as the machine is in status "build" the root_pass is only encoded once.
  • If a call to unattended/built is made, the root_pass is base64 encoded twice.

This is normally not a problem but I think it is not an intended behaviour.


Related issues 1 (0 open1 closed)

Related to Foreman - Feature #8890: Allow selection of plaintext "encryption" method for root passwordClosedWilliam Hefter01/09/2015Actions
Actions #1

Updated by Dominic Cleal over 8 years ago

  • Related to Feature #8890: Allow selection of plaintext "encryption" method for root password added
Actions #2

Updated by Dominic Cleal over 8 years ago

  • Category set to Host creation

Looks like a bug in the host which calls the crypt method. It normally checks for a regular crypt call if the password already has a $..$ type form, but obviously, that won't work for plain base64 so it's calling crypt each time the host is edited.

Actions #3

Updated by larry campbell over 8 years ago

Thanks for writing this up Nils. Is there a suggestion for a workaround until something gets merged in? Right now we're having to hard-code a default password in the template, then change it later with puppet which is not ideal.

Actions #4

Updated by Tom Caspy over 8 years ago

  • Assignee set to Tom Caspy
Actions #5

Updated by The Foreman Bot over 8 years ago

  • Status changed from New to Ready For Testing
  • Pull request https://github.com/theforeman/foreman/pull/2695 added
  • Pull request deleted ()
Actions #6

Updated by Tom Caspy over 8 years ago

  • Status changed from Ready For Testing to Closed
  • % Done changed from 0 to 100
Actions #7

Updated by Dominic Cleal over 8 years ago

  • translation missing: en.field_release set to 88
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