Bug#669384: jxplorer: simple authentification (user + password)

On Tue, Aug 07, 2012 at 09:26:48PM +0200, Luc Novalès wrote:

I just verified with wireshark : Password contains special
characters and is not correctly transmitted. With 3.3b3 sourceforge
version it is.

Which special characters?

$ LANG=C jxplorer fixes that?


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On 08/09/2012 03:44 PM, Luc Novalès wrote:

Le 09/08/2012 14:51, Gabriele Giacone a écrit :

Which special characters?

$ LANG=C jxplorer fixes that?

Not.
'@' character is 2 bytes encoded : 'c3 a0' instead of ascii byte '40'

I took a look at french keyboard, 'c3 a0' is 'à' on the same '@' key
just without pressing alt-gr. It seems it doesn't get alt-gr pressed
sometimes. I can reproduce it with an italian one, different layout.
To verify that, type password somewhere else then copy and paste it
there, that should always send correct password.


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severity 669384 normal
reassign 669384 openjdk-6-jre
retitle 669384 jre6 doesn't detect alt-gr keystrokes
thanks

On 08/09/2012 09:16 PM, Gabriele Giacone wrote:

On 08/09/2012 03:44 PM, Luc Novalès wrote:

Le 09/08/2012 14:51, Gabriele Giacone a écrit :

Which special characters?

$ LANG=C jxplorer fixes that?

Not.
'@' character is 2 bytes encoded : 'c3 a0' instead of ascii byte '40'

I took a look at french keyboard, 'c3 a0' is 'à' on the same '@' key
just without pressing alt-gr. It seems it doesn't get alt-gr pressed
sometimes. I can reproduce it with an italian one, different layout.
To verify that, type password somewhere else then copy and paste it
there, that should always send correct password.

Found JPasswordField bug, jre6 regression:

http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_idh01620
http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_idg03772

Another, better, workaround is upgrading to jre7.

$ sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jre
$ sudo update-java-alternatives --jre -s java-1.7.0-openjdk-amd64


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