[freeside] Problems with radiusd-cistron-1.6.6

Stephen Bechard steve at destek.net
Sat Dec 7 17:59:11 PST 2002


I added it to the password section based on the same
reasoning as the username-ampersand, in case it causes
problems with shell commands.

Enjoy,
Steve

Here are the diffs for only the exclamation if you choose
not to apply the password-noampersand:

Accounting# diff -u
/home/freeside/installation/freeside-1.4.1beta5/FS/FS/svc_acct.pm
svc_acct.pm
--- /home/freeside/installation/freeside-1.4.1beta5/FS/FS/svc_acct.pm   Tue
Nov  5 18:29:41 2002
+++ svc_acct.pm Sat Dec  7 20:54:37 2002
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
              $username_ampersand $username_letter $username_letterfirst
              $username_noperiod $username_nounderscore $username_nodash
              $username_uppercase
+             $password_noexclamation
              $mydomain
              $welcome_template $welcome_from $welcome_subject
$welcome_mimetype
              $smtpmachine
@@ -51,6 +52,7 @@
   $username_nodash = $conf->exists('username-nodash');
   $username_uppercase = $conf->exists('username-uppercase');
   $username_ampersand = $conf->exists('username-ampersand');
+  $password_noexclamation = $conf->exists('password-noexclamation');
   $mydomain = $conf->config('domain');
   $dirhash = $conf->config('dirhash') || 0;
   if ( $conf->exists('welcome_email') ) {
@@ -697,6 +699,9 @@
   }
   unless ( $username_ampersand ) {
     $recref->{username} =~ /\&/ and return gettext('illegal_username');
+  }
+  if ( $password_noexclamation ) {
+    $recref->{_password} =~ /\!/ and return gettext('illegal_password');
   }

   $recref->{popnum} =~ /^(\d*)$/ or return "Illegal popnum:
".$recref->{popnum};


Accounting# diff -u
/home/freeside/installation/freeside-1.4.1beta5/FS/FS/Conf.pm Conf.pm
--- /home/freeside/installation/freeside-1.4.1beta5/FS/FS/Conf.pm       Sat
Nov 16 05:33:16 2002
+++ Conf.pm     Sat Dec  7 20:54:11 2002
@@ -540,6 +540,13 @@
   },

   {
+    'key'         => 'password-noexclamation',
+    'section'     => 'password',
+    'description' => 'Disallow exclamations in passwords (Not setting this
could break Livingston or Cistron Radius servers)',
+    'type'        => 'checkbox',
+  },
+
+  {
     'key'         => 'qmailmachines',
     'section'     => 'mail',
     'description' => 'Your qmail machines, one per line.  This enables
export of `/var/qmail/control/virtualdomains\',
`/var/qmail/control/recipientmap\', and `/var/qmail/control/rcpthosts\'.
Setting this option (even if empty) also turns on user `.qmail-extension\'
file maintenance in conjunction with the <b>shellmachine</b> option.',



----- Original Message -----
From: <ivan at 420.am>
To: <ivan-freeside at sisd.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 07, 2002 7:34 PM
Subject: Re: [freeside] Problems with radiusd-cistron-1.6.6


Can you send a patch which only adds the password-noexclamation option,
or explain what password-noampersand would be used for?

On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 02:41:24AM -0500, Stephen Bechard wrote:
> I just learned the hard way that exclamations in a users
> password will cause radiusd-cistron-1.6.6 to die on reload
> unless they are escaped out ( aka \! )
>
> If anyone is interested, I choose to modified the
> svc_acct.pm and Conf.pm to disallow exclamations and
> ampersands in the passwords via the Configuration settings.
> No ampersands are not a problem with the radius servers,
> but I just added it as another option while I was in there. ;)
>
> Enjoy,
> Steve
>
> Here are the diffs:
>
> Accounting# diff -u
> /home/freeside/installation/freeside-1.4.1beta5/FS/FS/svc_acct.pm
> svc_acct.pm
> --- /home/freeside/installation/freeside-1.4.1beta5/FS/FS/svc_acct.pm
Tue
> Nov  5 18:29:41 2002
> +++ svc_acct.pm Sat Dec  7 02:26:22 2002
> @@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
>               $username_ampersand $username_letter $username_letterfirst
>               $username_noperiod $username_nounderscore $username_nodash
>               $username_uppercase
> +             $password_noampersand $password_noexclamation
>               $mydomain
>               $welcome_template $welcome_from $welcome_subject
> $welcome_mimetype
>               $smtpmachine
> @@ -51,6 +52,8 @@
>    $username_nodash = $conf->exists('username-nodash');
>    $username_uppercase = $conf->exists('username-uppercase');
>    $username_ampersand = $conf->exists('username-ampersand');
> +  $password_noampersand = $conf->exists('password-noampersand');
> +  $password_noexclamation = $conf->exists('password-noexclamation');
>    $mydomain = $conf->config('domain');
>    $dirhash = $conf->config('dirhash') || 0;
>    if ( $conf->exists('welcome_email') ) {
> @@ -697,6 +700,12 @@
>    }
>    unless ( $username_ampersand ) {
>      $recref->{username} =~ /\&/ and return gettext('illegal_username');
> +  }
> +  if ( $password_noampersand ) {
> +    $recref->{_password} =~ /\&/ and return gettext('illegal_password');
> +  }
> +  if ( $password_noexclamation ) {
> +    $recref->{_password} =~ /\!/ and return gettext('illegal_password');
>    }
>
>    $recref->{popnum} =~ /^(\d*)$/ or return "Illegal popnum:
> ".$recref->{popnum};
>
>
>
>
>
> Accounting# diff -u
> /home/freeside/installation/freeside-1.4.1beta5/FS/FS/Conf.pm Conf.pm
> --- /home/freeside/installation/freeside-1.4.1beta5/FS/FS/Conf.pm
Sat
> Nov 16 05:33:16 2002
> +++ Conf.pm     Sat Dec  7 02:28:09 2002
> @@ -540,6 +540,20 @@
>    },
>
>    {
> +    'key'         => 'password-noampersand',
> +    'section'     => 'password',
> +    'description' => 'Disallow ampersands in passwords',
> +    'type'        => 'checkbox',
> +  },
> +
> +  {
> +    'key'         => 'password-noexclamation',
> +    'section'     => 'password',
> +    'description' => 'Disallow exclamations in passwords (Not setting
this
> could break Livingston or Cistron Radius servers)',
> +    'type'        => 'checkbox',
> +  },
> +
> +  {
>      'key'         => 'qmailmachines',
>      'section'     => 'mail',
>      'description' => 'Your qmail machines, one per line.  This enables
> export of `/var/qmail/control/virtualdomains\',
> `/var/qmail/control/recipientmap\', and `/var/qmail/control/rcpthosts\'.
> Setting this option (even if empty) also turns on user `.qmail-extension\'
> file maintenance in conjunction with the <b>shellmachine</b> option.',
>

--
_ivan





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