https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=837959 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=837959#c0 Summary: kdesu crashes when root password contains the character " Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 12.3 Version: Final Platform: All OS/Version: openSUSE 12.3 Status: NEW Severity: Major Priority: P5 - None Component: Security AssignedTo: security-team@suse.de ReportedBy: a.accioly@7rtc.com QAContact: qa-bugs@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/29.0.1547.62 Safari/537.36 When root password contains the character ", kdesu crashes with the message: kdesu(1825)/kdesu (kdelibs) KDESu::KDEsuClient::command: [ /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/kdelibs-4.10.5/kdesu/client.cpp : 209 ] no reply from daemon. As a side effect, when running programs that requires root access from the Kickoff menu (e.g. yast), kdesu will silently crash and the desired application is not launched Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open a root terminal 2. Change the root password: passwd mypassword" mypassword" 3. Open a user terminal 4. Run kdesu yast2 5. Type mypassword" ----- Alternative scenarios: 3.b) Launch YaST from the kickoff menu 4) Type mypassword" Actual Results: yast is not launched. kdesu prints: "kdesu(2393)/kdesu (kdelibs) KDESu::KDEsuClient::command: [ /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/kdelibs-4.10.5/kdesu/client.cpp : 209 ] no reply from daemon." Expected Results: yast2 (or whichever software the user wants to run) should pop up Credit for finding out what actually breaks kdesu goes to JakobAbfalter... See: http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/applications/4704... I don't think that this is a upstream bug, since I had no issues with double quotes on other KDE distros. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.