passwords with spaces not supported in .sendxmpprc

[ben0x4a]

Since the fields in .sendxmpprc are whitespace seperated, there is no way to enter a password with a space in it.

[matthiasbock]

Are you sure? Have you tried quotation: "password" or 'password' ?

[ben0x4a]

I am sure. Adding quotes just makes things worse, the quotes get included as part of the password.

[ben@Nyx:~/projects/sendxmpp] cat /.sendxmpprc
ben@im.office.gdi 'secret hello what' hello
[ben@Nyx:/projects/sendxmpp] echo "test message" | ./sendxmpp -v --ssl -j im.office.gdi ben@im.office.gdi
Use of uninitialized value $args{"file"} in lc at /usr/share/perl5/Net/XMPP/Debug.pm line 154.
syntax error in line 1 of /home/ben/.sendxmpprc

[ben@Nyx:~/projects/sendxmpp] cat /.sendxmpprc
ben@im.office.gdi "secret hello what" hello
[ben@Nyx:/projects/sendxmpp] echo "test message" | ./sendxmpp -v --ssl -j im.office.gdi ben@im.office.gdi
Use of uninitialized value $args{"file"} in lc at /usr/share/perl5/Net/XMPP/Debug.pm line 154.
syntax error in line 1 of /home/ben/.sendxmpprc

[ben@Nyx:~/projects/sendxmpp] cat /.sendxmpprc
ben@im.office.gdi "secrethello" there
[ben@Nyx:/projects/sendxmpp] echo "test message" | ./sendxmpp -v --ssl -j im.office.gdi ben@im.office.gdi
Use of uninitialized value $args{"file"} in lc at /usr/share/perl5/Net/XMPP/Debug.pm line 154.
sendxmpp: config: 'password' => '"secrethello"'
sendxmpp: config: 'component' => 'there'
sendxmpp: config: 'jserver' => 'im.office.gdi'
sendxmpp: config: 'port' => '0'
sendxmpp: config: 'username' => 'ben'
sendxmpp: ssl_verify: 1
sendxmpp: tls_ca_path:
Use of uninitialized value within @_ in lc at /usr/share/perl5/XML/Stream/Parser.pm line 71.
sendxmpp: Connect: 1
Error 'AuthSend': error: not-authorized[?]
sendxmpp: Disconnect

It comes down to the regex here:
if (/([.\w_#-]+)@([-.\w:;]+)\s+(\S+)\s*(\S+)?$/) {
%config = (
'username' => $1,
'jserver' => $2,
'port' => 0,
'password' => $3,
'component' => $4,
);

The password (\S+) matches non-whitespace characters. No quoting or escaping is checked for. Adding support for quoting in the regex would be difficult without breaking passwords with quotation marks in them. Probably the best option would be to put each field on a seperate line, like:
account: user
server: server
password: "password"
component: componentname
and consider everything between the first and last " part of the password, so ""hello there" => "hello there

[lhost]

Hi all,

I will check this issue this week and provide a patch. The biggest problem
is backward compatibility but it is not a problem at all. :-)

Thanks for your report.

Regards,
LH
On Sep 12, 2014 5:20 PM, "ben0x4a" notifications@github.com wrote:

I am sure. Adding quotes just makes things worse, the quotes get included
as part of the password.

[ben@Nyx:~/projects/sendxmpp] cat /.sendxmpprc
ben@im.office.gdi 'secret hello what' hello
[ben@Nyx:/projects/sendxmpp] echo "test message" | ./sendxmpp -v --ssl
-j im.office.gdi ben@im.office.gdi
Use of uninitialized value $args{"file"} in lc at
/usr/share/perl5/Net/XMPP/Debug.pm line 154.
syntax error in line 1 of /home/ben/.sendxmpprc

[ben@Nyx:~/projects/sendxmpp] cat /.sendxmpprc
ben@im.office.gdi "secret hello what" hello
[ben@Nyx:/projects/sendxmpp] echo "test message" | ./sendxmpp -v --ssl
-j im.office.gdi ben@im.office.gdi
Use of uninitialized value $args{"file"} in lc at
/usr/share/perl5/Net/XMPP/Debug.pm line 154.
syntax error in line 1 of /home/ben/.sendxmpprc

[ben@Nyx:~/projects/sendxmpp] cat /.sendxmpprc
ben@im.office.gdi "secrethello" there
[ben@Nyx:/projects/sendxmpp] echo "test message" | ./sendxmpp -v --ssl
-j im.office.gdi ben@im.office.gdi
Use of uninitialized value $args{"file"} in lc at
/usr/share/perl5/Net/XMPP/Debug.pm line 154.
sendxmpp: config: 'password' => '"secrethello"'
sendxmpp: config: 'component' => 'there'
sendxmpp: config: 'jserver' => 'im.office.gdi'
sendxmpp: config: 'port' => '0'
sendxmpp: config: 'username' => 'ben'
sendxmpp: ssl_verify: 1
sendxmpp: tls_ca_path:
Use of uninitialized value within @_ in lc at
/usr/share/perl5/XML/Stream/Parser.pm line 71.
sendxmpp: Connect: 1
Error 'AuthSend': error: not-authorized[?]
sendxmpp: Disconnect

It comes down to the regex here:
if (/([.\w_#-]+)@([-.\w:;]+)\s+(\S+)\s*(\S+)?$/) {
%config = (
'username' => $1,
'jserver' => $2,
'port' => 0,
'password' => $3,
'component' => $4,
);

The password (\S+) matches non-whitespace characters. No quoting or
escaping is checked for. Adding support for quoting in the regex would be
difficult without breaking passwords with quotation marks in them. Probably
the best option would be to put each field on a seperate line, like:
account: user
server: server
password: "password"
component: componentname
and consider everything between the first and last " part of the password,
so ""hello there" => "hello there

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[lhost]

Fixed