Tags 501605 +patch thanks Hi,
On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 03:17:43PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote: > Line 212 in the postinst breaks if sympa/key_password contains sed > metacharacters, for instance 'a/b/c' as above. attached is a patch for this issue. Best Regards, Patrick
--- sympa-5.3.4/debian/postinst 2008-10-09 17:20:42.000000000 +0200 +++ sympa-5.3.4.patched/debian/postinst 2008-10-09 17:20:18.433756307 +0200 @@ -208,8 +208,10 @@ if ! grep -q "^#-- S/MIME configuration" /etc/sympa/sympa.conf ; then db_get sympa/key_password key_password="$RET" + # Escape the character which is used in the sed command + key_password="`echo $key_password|sed 's/|/\\\|/g'`" - sed -e "s/@KEY_PASSWORD@/$key_password/" \ + sed -e "s|@KEY_PASSWORD@|$key_password|" \ /etc/sympa/sympa.conf-smime.in >>/etc/sympa/sympa.conf chown sympa:sympa /etc/sympa/sympa.conf fi
