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  • Committer: Teddy Hogeborn
  • Date: 2022-04-23 23:58:39 UTC
  • mto: This revision was merged to the branch mainline in revision 406.
  • Revision ID: teddy@recompile.se-20220423235839-cnt9aq1kjveqaydc
Bug fix in mandos-ctl: handle backslashes in password

* mandos-ctl (mode=password): When sending the password to gpg, use
  "printf" instead of "echo -n".  This avoids the behavior of the
  "echo" builtin in "dash", which always interprets backslash escape
  codes.

Reported-By: Jesse Norell <jesse@kci.net>

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
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"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2019-08-04">
 
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2021-02-03">
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<!ENTITY % common SYSTEM "common.ent">
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%common;
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]>
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      <year>2017</year>
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      <year>2018</year>
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      <year>2019</year>
 
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      <year>2020</year>
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      <holder>Teddy Hogeborn</holder>
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      <holder>Björn Påhlsson</holder>
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    </copyright>
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      As for <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle
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      ><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry> in particular, it has
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      its own <ulink
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      url="https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PasswordAgents/"
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      >Password Agents</ulink> system.  Mandos uses this via its
 
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      url="https://systemd.io/PASSWORD_AGENTS/">Password
 
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      Agents</ulink> system.  Mandos uses this via its
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      <citerefentry><refentrytitle>password-agent</refentrytitle
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      ><manvolnum>8mandos</manvolnum></citerefentry> program, which
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      is run instead of <citerefentry><refentrytitle
 
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      ><manvolnum>8mandos</manvolnum></citerefentry> program, which is
 
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      run instead of <citerefentry><refentrytitle
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      >plugin-runner</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8mandos</manvolnum
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      ></citerefentry> when <citerefentry><refentrytitle
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      >systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>