Can't type in password with "(" or ")" in it
mateuszbieniek opened this issue · 8 comments
Hi!
When the app asks to enter a sudo password, you can't type in "(" and ")" chars - they are just ignored, therefore if I have a sudo password with either of those - I can't authenticate properly.
This appears to be an issue with fine.io which is a UI package he's using. You can raise the issue here fine.io
Specifically the function that seems to be at fault is "NewPasswordEntry" in the widget library. I haven't tested it and am taking you at your word, but it would appear that the result of this entry strips those characters. Looking at his code, he's doing no changes on the password and is taking it as it is returned from fine.io. Really the only thing he does is add a \n on to the end of it when testing it for validity which is totally valid and wouldn't result in your issue.
In case anyone is wondering, I did look at fine.io's code base and it doesn't appear you can pass in any kind of regular expression to control the password entry, which is a shame. Also, I researched the linux passwd command and basically anything you can manage to enter on the command line is valid, including the null character, although if that character isn't at the end, everything after that character is lost. Presumably a great many root passwords would not be accepted by fine.io.
What's interesting is that this behaviour only occurs when using Deck's touch keyboard. No problems when using an external physical keyboard connected via BT.
That's such odd behavior. I guess I just assumed any virtual keyboard would function the same as a regular one but that is obviously not the case. The bug could still potentially be fine.io but it also could be with valve's virtual keyboard.
Tell me, what should I do if, when entering a password in CryoUtilities, it says that the password is incorrect? Moreover, I changed the password using passwd to a more complex one/six-digit/with and without symbols/even just one number - the result is the same, the password is incorrect
I'm not sure what the issue is if you're just using a basic password with only alphanumeric characters. Did you set the password for your current user or for the root user?
I don’t really understand this, but I did it as in the description, set the password via the command line using passwd. I have now demolished the system (there were a lot of plugins that I wanted to demolish for a long time) and will try from scratch. Maybe this will work out. And another question not on this topic, does CryoUtillities work on the entire system and Steam games or only on pirated ones?
This report is specifically about root passwords containing certain characters not working with Cryoutils because of fine.io and or certain steam virtual keyboard inputs. Please try to keep it on topic. Github is not a social forum.
The current workaround for this specific issue is to not use these special characters when setting your root password.
I don’t really understand this, but I did it as in the description, set the password via the command line using passwd. I have now demolished the system (there were a lot of plugins that I wanted to demolish for a long time) and will try from scratch. Maybe this will work out. And another question not on this topic, does CryoUtillities work on the entire system and Steam games or only on pirated ones?
To answer your final question, it works on everything on the system. If you need further help or support please use the Discord channels, as this is an isolated bug report as mentioned above 🙂