Bug 337048

Summary:	Proxy Config
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE Linux 10.1	Reporter:	Marc Simpson <m.simpson>
Component:	YaST2	Assignee:	Katarina Machalkova <kmachalkova>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity:	Major
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Final
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	32bit
OS:	openSUSE 10.2
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Found By:	Other	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Attachments:	Proposed patch

Description Marc Simpson 2007-10-26 11:59:20 UTC

Whilst trying to enter proxy configuration it asks for a Username and Password, in the username field it dont allow you to type a space bar, making it impossible for me to login to the proxy i need to access.

Comment 1 Katarina Machalkova 2007-11-06 10:26:02 UTC

Having proxy module accept spaces in username field is trivial (see the patch I'll attach shortly). 
But I'm unsure if space is a valid character for proxy username. Klaus, can you comment?

Comment 2 Katarina Machalkova 2007-11-06 10:27:12 UTC

Created attachment 182186 [details]
Proposed patch 

Apply this patch to /usr/share/YaST2/clients/proxy.ycp

Comment 3 Klaus Singvogel 2007-11-06 11:13:15 UTC

I'm not quite sure neither. I'm not aware of any RFC, which defines this.

But the allowed characters in the username depends on the underlying authentication scheme. There are several known and supported: LDAP, NCSA, MSNT, PAM, SMB, sasl, ...

I don't know, if there exists a scheme, which allows spaces in the username. But if there is one, then it has to be translated to the sequence "%20".

Hope this helps.

Comment 4 Katarina Machalkova 2007-11-21 16:50:04 UTC

The issue is fixed in yast2-network 2.16.10 (for openSUSE Factory). 

I'm afraid I cannot do much for openSUSE 10.1 as this does not affect so many users that it'd be worth releasing online update. If you're affected by this bug, simply apply the patch from comment #2