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| author | Andrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org> | 2010-03-11 15:34:01 +1100 |
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| committer | Andrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org> | 2010-03-11 15:34:01 +1100 |
| commit | 6441a5b0b97973b834ba025f1762abe2b5c3f3c9 (patch) | |
| tree | d073ccb804a3303a3c3359477dd0bec243321be6 /lib/util/genrand.c | |
| parent | a6253a45c0733e81a8d2200d1d8892383bc00c31 (diff) | |
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Explain why we don't use certain characters in the generated pw
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diff --git a/lib/util/genrand.c b/lib/util/genrand.c index f8aceae40a..7fe55f345e 100644 --- a/lib/util/genrand.c +++ b/lib/util/genrand.c @@ -368,6 +368,12 @@ again: _PUBLIC_ char *generate_random_password(TALLOC_CTX *mem_ctx, size_t min, size_t max) { char *retstr; + /* This list does not include { or } because they cause + * problems for our provision (it can create a substring + * ${...}, and for Fedora DS (which treats {...} at the start + * of a stored password as special + * -- Andrew Bartlett 2010-03-11 + */ const char *c_list = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789+_-#.,@$%&!?:;<=>()[]~"; size_t len = max; size_t diff; |