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Posted to dev@subversion.apache.org by Ben Collins-Sussman <su...@red-bean.com> on 2008/06/10 15:35:22 UTC

bug in new plaintext auth-prompt warning

I love that our new svn_cmdline_auth_plaintext_prompt() screams murder
about storing the password in plaintext!  However, I ran into a bug
this morning with it.  svnmucc was passing a NULL prompt baton into it
(which seems legitimate to me), and the function was just blindly
dereferencing the baton to find the user's config_path.  I made a
small patch below which conditionalizes the printing of the
config_path text.  It fixes the svnmucc segfault.  Any objections to
my committing this?

(I'm asking before I commit, since I've not been paying detailed
attention to this new feature.)



Index: subversion/libsvn_subr/prompt.c
===================================================================
--- subversion/libsvn_subr/prompt.c     (revision 31680)
+++ subversion/libsvn_subr/prompt.c     (working copy)
@@ -390,11 +390,12 @@
   svn_boolean_t answered = FALSE;
   const char *prompt_string = _("Store password unencrypted (yes/no)? ");
   svn_cmdline_prompt_baton2_t *pb = baton;
-  const char *config_path;
-
-  SVN_ERR(svn_config_get_user_config_path(&config_path, pb->config_dir,
-                                          SVN_CONFIG_CATEGORY_SERVERS, pool));
+  const char *config_path = NULL;

+  if (pb)
+    SVN_ERR(svn_config_get_user_config_path(&config_path, pb->config_dir,
+
SVN_CONFIG_CATEGORY_SERVERS, pool));
+
   SVN_ERR(svn_cmdline_fprintf(stderr, pool,
   _("-----------------------------------------------------------------------\n"
     "ATTENTION!  Your password for authentication realm:\n"
@@ -404,13 +405,19 @@
     "can only be stored to disk unencrypted!  You are advised to configure\n"
     "your system so that Subversion can store passwords encrypted, if\n"
     "possible.  See the documentation for details.\n"
-    "\n"
-    "You can avoid future appearances of this warning by setting the value\n"
-    "of the 'store-plaintext-passwords' option to either 'yes' or 'no' in\n"
-    "'%s'.\n"
-    "-----------------------------------------------------------------------\n"
-    ), realmstring, config_path));
+    ), realmstring));

+  if (config_path)
+    SVN_ERR(svn_cmdline_fprintf(stderr, pool,
+     _("\n"
+       "You can avoid future appearances of this warning by setting
the value\n"
+       "of the 'store-plaintext-passwords' option to either 'yes' or 'no' in\n"
+       "'%s'.\n"
+    ), realmstring));
+
+  SVN_ERR(svn_cmdline_fprintf(stderr, pool,
+  "-----------------------------------------------------------------------\n"));
+
   do
     {
       svn_error_t *err = prompt(&answer, prompt_string, FALSE, pb, pool);

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Re: bug in new plaintext auth-prompt warning

Posted by Ben Collins-Sussman <su...@red-bean.com>.
Yes yes, of course.  Nothing to see here, please move along.  (Thank
goodness for code review.)

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 10:37 AM, C. Michael Pilato <cm...@collab.net> wrote:
> Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> @@ -404,13 +405,19 @@
>>     "can only be stored to disk unencrypted!  You are advised to
>> configure\n"
>>     "your system so that Subversion can store passwords encrypted, if\n"
>>     "possible.  See the documentation for details.\n"
>> -    "\n"
>> -    "You can avoid future appearances of this warning by setting the
>> value\n"
>> -    "of the 'store-plaintext-passwords' option to either 'yes' or 'no'
>> in\n"
>> -    "'%s'.\n"
>> -
>>  "-----------------------------------------------------------------------\n"
>> -    ), realmstring, config_path));
>> +    ), realmstring));
>>
>> +  if (config_path)
>> +    SVN_ERR(svn_cmdline_fprintf(stderr, pool,
>> +     _("\n"
>> +       "You can avoid future appearances of this warning by setting
>> the value\n"
>> +       "of the 'store-plaintext-passwords' option to either 'yes' or 'no'
>> in\n"
>> +       "'%s'.\n"
>> +    ), realmstring));
>
>          ^^^^ shouldn't this be 'config_path' instead of realm_string?
>
> --
> C. Michael Pilato <cm...@collab.net>
> CollabNet   <>   www.collab.net   <>   Distributed Development On Demand
>
>

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Re: bug in new plaintext auth-prompt warning

Posted by "C. Michael Pilato" <cm...@collab.net>.
Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:

[...]

> @@ -404,13 +405,19 @@
>      "can only be stored to disk unencrypted!  You are advised to configure\n"
>      "your system so that Subversion can store passwords encrypted, if\n"
>      "possible.  See the documentation for details.\n"
> -    "\n"
> -    "You can avoid future appearances of this warning by setting the value\n"
> -    "of the 'store-plaintext-passwords' option to either 'yes' or 'no' in\n"
> -    "'%s'.\n"
> -    "-----------------------------------------------------------------------\n"
> -    ), realmstring, config_path));
> +    ), realmstring));
> 
> +  if (config_path)
> +    SVN_ERR(svn_cmdline_fprintf(stderr, pool,
> +     _("\n"
> +       "You can avoid future appearances of this warning by setting
> the value\n"
> +       "of the 'store-plaintext-passwords' option to either 'yes' or 'no' in\n"
> +       "'%s'.\n"
> +    ), realmstring));

           ^^^^ shouldn't this be 'config_path' instead of realm_string?

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CollabNet   <>   www.collab.net   <>   Distributed Development On Demand


Re: bug in new plaintext auth-prompt warning

Posted by Ben Collins-Sussman <su...@red-bean.com>.
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 11:24 AM, Stefan Sperling <st...@elego.de> wrote:

>
> Yes, this is a bug. Squash it.

Done.

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Re: bug in new plaintext auth-prompt warning

Posted by Stefan Sperling <st...@elego.de>.
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 10:35:22AM -0500, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> I love that our new svn_cmdline_auth_plaintext_prompt() screams murder
> about storing the password in plaintext!

Heh :)

It also haunts people at night if they store their passwords in
plaintext anyway. That's a hidden feature.

> However, I ran into a bug
> this morning with it.  svnmucc was passing a NULL prompt baton into it
> (which seems legitimate to me), and the function was just blindly
> dereferencing the baton to find the user's config_path.  I made a
> small patch below which conditionalizes the printing of the
> config_path text.  It fixes the svnmucc segfault.  Any objections to
> my committing this?
> 
> (I'm asking before I commit, since I've not been paying detailed
> attention to this new feature.)

Yes, this is a bug. Squash it.

Thanks,
Stefan