Re: troubles with Gosa

[Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>]

[Samuel Krempp]
> sure, I'll add a warning against using spaces in passwords.

Great.

> I'll try to experiment and see what's happening exactly : does the space  
> results in only the first 'word' being used as password, for everything  
> ? Or maybe the whole password is being used for gosa and truncated when  
> passed to kerberos. Is the whole processing done by regular GOsa, or is  
> there some skolelinux-specific script along the way that could be the  
> culprit ?

The GOsa->Kerberos sync script is from debian-edu-config, see
/usr/share/debian-edu-config/tools/gosa-sync.

For the first user, there is also
/usr/share/debian-edu-config/tools/kerberos-kdc-init and
/usr/bin/ldap-debian-edu-install.

> If GOsa does indeed mishandle spaces, it should definitely warn
> against it in the password change interface - and implement checks
> to make it impossible for someone to define such a password
> unknowingly.  A word of warning in the middle of the user management
> manual could easily be overlooked.

Yeah.

> I'm not sure the bug is in GOsa, maybe it's further down in the
> processing chain. One thing is certain : DNS was working as
> intended, and "ping host08" did reach said host with IP entered as
> 10.0.16.08 Is it possible that Skolelinux does some flaky parsing of
> the IPs stored in LDAP, causing the issue, or can we be sure the bug
> is GOsa's ?

I am not sure.
-- 
Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen