[Spice-devel] Always get Invalid password while trying to connect to spice server

[Christophe Fergeau]

On Wed, Jan 02, 2019 at 03:07:06PM +0100, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> On Wed, Dec 26, 2018 at 01:03:38PM +0100, Niccolò Belli wrote:
> > I just noticed that the problem looks limited to special characters.
> > For example if I set "Password" as password it works, while if I set
> > "Password%%" it doesn't. It's weird because both my server and my desktop
> > client use the same US English layout. It's even more weird because the same
> > password used to work fine before.
> 
> I've been able to bisect this to https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=8bca4613
> which is new in qemu 3.1.0
> For what it's worth, when you set 'Password%%', you'll be able to
> connect with 'Password%' (ie double % becomes single %).
> I've sent a patch fixing this to qemu-devel, but it does not appear yet
> in its archives.

It's now at https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-01/msg00108.html

Christophe
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