[Firebird-devel] [FB-Tracker] Created: (CORE-4885) Trusted auth. does not workwhen OS user name contains non-ascii characters (rather than Srp auth which does work fine in that case for SQL login)

2015-07-23 Thread Pavel Zotov (JIRA)
Trusted auth. does not workwhen OS user name contains non-ascii characters (rather than Srp auth which does work fine in that case for SQL login) -

Re: [Firebird-devel] FB3 maximum password length

2015-07-23 Thread Dimitry Sibiryakov
23.07.2015 15:44, Alex Peshkoff wrote: > This can be solved provided locale for that script is installed on the > box (which seems to be reasonable requirement). It would require some kind of matching table between FB charsets and system locales. -- WBR, SD. -

Re: [Firebird-devel] FB3 maximum password length

2015-07-23 Thread Alex Peshkoff
On 07/23/2015 02:51 PM, Dimitry Sibiryakov wrote: > 23.07.2015 13:36, Alex Peshkoff wrote: >> Therefore passwords are converted to UTF8 before hash >> calculation. > The only problem is _from_ which codepage it is converted. For passwords > from command > line and interactive session it is sim

[Firebird-devel] [FB-Tracker] Created: (CORE-4884) Crash on pasring of script containing `execute block` with lot of nested begin..end statements

2015-07-23 Thread Pavel Zotov (JIRA)
Crash on pasring of script containing `execute block` with lot of nested begin..end statements -- Key: CORE-4884 URL: http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/CORE-4884

Re: [Firebird-devel] FB3 maximum password length

2015-07-23 Thread Dimitry Sibiryakov
23.07.2015 13:36, Alex Peshkoff wrote: > Therefore passwords are converted to UTF8 before hash > calculation. The only problem is _from_ which codepage it is converted. For passwords from command line and interactive session it is simple, but if password is provided from script with SET NAM

Re: [Firebird-devel] FB3 maximum password length

2015-07-23 Thread James Starkey
I don't believe it is "effectively limited" to 20 bytes. This was a documentation error based on a profound misunderstanding of the SHA-1 hash function. On Thursday, July 23, 2015, Stefan Heymann wrote: > In the FB3 Release Notes the chapter about "Increased Password Length" > speaks of a maxim

Re: [Firebird-devel] FB3 maximum password length

2015-07-23 Thread Alex Peshkoff
On 07/23/2015 12:57 PM, Stefan Heymann wrote: >> What about character set used for storing passwords - this question >> makes no sense, passwords are not stored, hashes for them are stored >> instead. One may use non-ascii characters for apsswords, but in beta2 >> this will cause troubles when usin

Re: [Firebird-devel] FB3 maximum password length

2015-07-23 Thread Stefan Heymann
> What about character set used for storing passwords - this question > makes no sense, passwords are not stored, hashes for them are stored > instead. One may use non-ascii characters for apsswords, but in beta2 > this will cause troubles when using services. Currently in SVN this is > fixed, in

Re: [Firebird-devel] FB3 maximum password length

2015-07-23 Thread Alex Peshkoff
On 07/23/2015 10:50 AM, Stefan Heymann wrote: > In the FB3 Release Notes the chapter about "Increased Password Length" > speaks of a maximum of 20 *bytes*. The second blue box in this chapter > then asks: > > Why is the password effectively limited to 20 *characters*? > > It is unclear from this do

[Firebird-devel] FB3 maximum password length

2015-07-23 Thread Stefan Heymann
In the FB3 Release Notes the chapter about "Increased Password Length" speaks of a maximum of 20 *bytes*. The second blue box in this chapter then asks: Why is the password effectively limited to 20 *characters*? It is unclear from this documentation if this is about bytes or characters. What cha