Bug 136876

Summary: sysconfig: ifup-wireless does not allow shell meta characters in WPA PSK
Product: [openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0 Reporter: Heiko Rommel <heiko.rommel>
Component: NetworkAssignee: Joachim Gleissner <joachim.gleissner>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Major    
Priority: P5 - None    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: Other   
OS: SuSE Linux 10.0   
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Attachments: patch that fixes the problem with meta characters in WPA PSKs

Description Heiko Rommel 2005-12-05 10:39:20 UTC 
When using a pre-shared key in WPA that contains shell meta characters (e.g. ')') ifup-wireless does not work.

I think this is major since WPA is the only secury WLAN access method supported by SUSE Linux 10.0 and even that does not work with good passwords!

Hint:
The eval expression used is not quoting save.
A patch is attached.
Comment 1 Heiko Rommel 2005-12-05 10:40:48 UTC 
Created attachment 59795 [details]
patch that fixes the problem with meta characters in WPA PSKs
Comment 3 Joachim Gleissner 2005-12-05 13:08:21 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 118157 ***