Gerrit LDAP password

[fredrik....@volvocars.com]

Hi,

I'm configuring a gerrit instance to interface an LDAP directory and I've hit a bump, shall we say.

The password for the user contains both a * and a ^ and this seems to be an issue in the configuration.

If I switch to a user without those characters in the password it works perfectly.

Unfortunanly I cannot change the password of the user I need to use, and in the production environment

users with trivial passwords don't exist (i.e. I can't switch user either.

Can I escape the password in the configuration file in some manner or is this just a plain old bug?

Thanks

Fredrik

[Steffen Gebert]

Hi Fredrik,

have you tried to use quotes?

[foo]
password = "123^*$"

Steffen

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[Elestedt, Fredrik]

Hi,

Yes, I did - and unfortunantly it makes no difference.
I did however verify that quotation marks do not affect the simple password - they are stripped off it seems.

// Fredrik

[Saša Živkov]

This might be a bug in JNDI. Maybe some of these special characters are not properly escaped

in the LDAP protocol and thus corrupt the protocol.

I would try escaping each of these characters with a backslash. Since git config eats one level

of back slashes you will need to add two. For example if your password it A*B put the

following in your config:

[ldap]

  password = A\\*B

Did it help?

[Elestedt, Fredrik]

Hi,

 

Unfortunantly not, still same issue. I tried using a single bashslash as well, only resulted in “fatal: bad config file”

 

// Fredrik

 

From: Saša Živkov [mailto:ziv...@gmail.com]
Sent: den 15 februari 2016 17:43
To: Elestedt, Fredrik
Cc: Repo and Gerrit Discussion
Subject: Re: Gerrit LDAP password

 

 

 

On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 2:56 PM, <fredrik....@volvocars.com> wrote:

[Dean Wheatley]

For anyone else having this similar issue, wrapping the ldap password with double-quotes is required if your password has "special" characters like @ and # (tested on v2.12.7). For example:

[ldap]

        password = "abc@#"

 

Thanks

Fredrik

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[David Ostrovsky]

On Sunday, October 15, 2017 at 4:30:17 AM UTC+2, Dean Wheatley wrote:

For anyone else having this similar issue, wrapping the ldap password with double-quotes is required if your password has "special" characters like @ and # (tested on v2.12.7). For example:

[ldap]

        password = "abc@#"

Thanks, there is even this issue exactly for that use case: [1].

* [1] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/gerrit/issues/detail?id=7293