When using DOUBLE_QUOTED_STRING, passwords with '\"' may not work

[平林 哲]

Thank you g4-lisz for all the follow-up.
It was very helpful.


On 2023/09/13 22:09, g4-lisz at tonarchiv.ch wrote:
> P.S. IMHO this behavior comes from getthing() in src/lib/token.c
> 
> September 13, 2023 2:00 PM, g4-lisz at tonarchiv.ch wrote:
> 
>> Alan,
>>
>> but he's right! The behavior is really not as one would expect. At least different from a shell and
>> C:
>>
>> "some\word" in config => some\word
>> "some\\word" in config => some\\word
>>
>> "some\\\"word" in config => some\\"word (in a shell or C this would be the one)
>>
>> So how to escape some\"word?
>> "some\\"word" in config => syntax error
>>
>> It only works with single quotes...
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> September 13, 2023 1:35 PM, "Alan DeKok" <aland at deployingradius.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sep 12, 2023, at 11:31 PM, 平林 哲 <Satoshi.Hirabayashi at soliton.co.jp> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Summary of results.
>>>
>>> You keep posting this. Why?
>>>
>>> Doing that means you're stuck on one part of the problem. You should instead work towards
>>> understanding the problem, which is more likely to lead you to a solution.
>>>
>>>> I feel that this behaviour is not correct.
>>>
>>> You're wrong. I explained why. Go back and read the messages.
>>>
>>>> Is there any way to correct this behaviour?
>>>
>>> You have source code. You can fix it if you don't like the behavior.
>>>
>>> We are not going to change the behavior of FreeRADIUS for everyone on the planet because you don't
>>> agree with 30+ year-old rules on string quoting and escaping.
>>>
>>> Alan DeKok.
>>
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