Re[2]: Status of FTP password hiding patches

["Pavel Shirshov (pchel)" <me pavelsh pp ru>]

Hello Jindrich,

Wednesday, October 27, 2004, 9:20:41 PM, you wrote:

JN> On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 14:04, Leonard den Ottolander wrote:
>> I would like to know what the status of the various FTP password hiding
>> patches is. Together with the quoting issues in vfs/extfs I believe this
>> to be the only issue that needs to be fixed before the release of 4.6.1.

JN> Hi,

JN> I fixed the possible memory leak regarding label_string found by Andrew
JN> V. Samoilov, see bug 131088 in Red Hat bugzilla. To test this patch,
JN> create an user "test" for example, set his password to "testpass",
JN> change your cwd by "cd /#ftp:test:testpass localhost" and:

JN> - try to upload a file to this directory and note the password is
JN> removed. Copy, error and other dialogs display "/#ftp:test localhost"

JN> - try to add the new ftp directory to directory hotlist, password will
JN> be also removed

JN> - try to find any dialog where the password is displayed

JN> I tested it and was unable to find any dialog that still shows a
JN> password in it. The patch is cleanly applicable to 20th Oct mc CVS
JN> snapshot.

JN> HTH,
JN> Jindrich

-----------
$ patch -p2 < mc-CVS-strippwd.patch

-----------


-- 
Best regards,
 Pavel                            mailto:me pavelsh pp ru