2017-11-19 10:43 GMT+05:00 Selva <[email protected]>:
>
>
> On Sun, Nov 19, 2017 at 12:06 AM, Илья Шипицин <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> 2017-11-18 8:25 GMT+05:00 Selva <[email protected]>:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I want to add some form of validation for user input in the GUI so that
>>> the user can be alerted when username, password etc. contains
>>> characters that may not work.
>>>
>>> So far the only characters that appear to be problematic are new line
>>> ('\n') and embedded '\0'. As the management interface uses a line based
>>> protocol with '\n' as the delimiter, it can't be a part of input strings
>>> and breaks quoting.
>>>
>>> Is there any other character that should be disallowed?
>>>
>>
>> there's something to investigate about "
>>
>> https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn-gui/blob/master/TODO#L3
>>
>
> I was also confused by that line in TODO about '"' in password. It seems
> to be an
> outdated entry and the GUI does correctly handle '"' in passwords. Unless
> openvpn
> core itself has a problem with embedded quotes..
>
I suggest to review TODO and convert it to github issues
>
> Selva
>
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