[Zope-dev] zope.password

[Daniel Holth]

sqlite for example will always return strings as unicode strings, or
it will always return strings as byte strings. It doesn't know how to
return the username colum as one kind of string and the hash column as
another kind of string.

I think this is really a bug in the urlsafe base64 module. This works:
unicode(u"foobar".encode('base64')).decode('base64')

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 4:07 AM, Wichert Akkerman <wichert at wiggy.net> wrote:
> On 2009-9-22 18:59, Daniel Holth wrote:
>>
>> At least on Python 2.6, SSHAPasswordManager().checkPassword(hash,
>> password) fails if hash is unicode, which it always is if stored in some
>> databases. SSHAPasswordManager should encode the hash to utf-8 before
>> trying to un-base64.
>
> Isn't that a bug in those databases. The hash is not a unicode string but a
> bytestring.
>
> Wichert.
>
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