Bug#406686: exim4: Client Auth Can't Handle Special Characters in Passwords

Steaphan Greene stea at cs.binghamton.edu
Sat Jan 13 15:49:30 CET 2007


On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 03:05:26PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> I cannot reproduce this.
> 
> Please change your password in /etc/exim/passwd.client to something
> containing $ or ^ (but _not_ being your password) and send me the
> output of
> 
> echo bla | exim4 -odq mh+debian-packages at zugschlus.de; exim4 -d-all+lists+expand -M $(exipick -i -bpu)

The issue is apparently only with the "^" when using plain or login 
auth.  Replacing it with "^^" did solve the problem.  I thought I had 
found problems without the "^" and using other test symbols, but 
apparently I had made a mistake.  The only problem characters I now find 
are "^" and, obviously, ":".  Given this info, do you still want this 
additional information from me?

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Steaphan Greene <sgreene at cs.binghamton.edu>
Lecturer, Computer Science, Binghamton University
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