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  • Committer: Germar
  • Date: 2015-03-18 17:51:16 UTC
  • Revision ID: germar-20150318175116-ode7jsqn20077aa5
https://launchpad.net/bugs/1431305
remove base64 encoding for passwords as it doesn't add any security but broke the password process

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common/askpass.py
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import os
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import sys
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import base64
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try:
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    import gtk
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except:
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    #temp mode
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    fifo = password_ipc.FIFO(temp_file)
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    pw_base64 = fifo.read(5)
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    if pw_base64:
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        print(base64.decodebytes(pw_base64.encode()).decode())
 
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    pw = fifo.read(5)
 
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    if pw:
 
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        print(pw)