[Zope3-Users] possible bug in zope\app\authentication\principalfolder.py

[Adam Groszer]

Hello Shailesh,

Which version of Z3 re you using?
As I remember that was fixed, but I can't dig the info from SVN.

Tuesday, August 7, 2007, 5:28:02 PM, you wrote:

> Hi,

> I was using InternalPrincipal object and specified a password with
> non-ascii characters.  Since Password is derived from TextLine, hence
> its supposed to be acceptable. But I found that if I use MD5 or SHA1
> password managers, it leads to problems. The following exception is
> thrown.

> I guess the password needs to be encoded in UTF8 before being hashed
> by md5 or sha1.

> File
> "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\zope\app\authentication\principalfolder.py",
> line 124, in __init__ self.password = password
> File
> "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\zope\app\authentication\principalfolder.py",
> line 144, in setPassword self._password =
> passwordManager.encodePassword(password)
> File
> "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\zope\app\authentication\password.py",
> line 76, in encodePassword return md5.new(password).hexdigest()

> With regards,
> -Shailesh
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 Adam                            mailto:agroszer at gmail.com