198185 - Master password for Software security device can not contain danish characters

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 252436

(Core Graveyard :: Security: UI, defect)

Description

[Klavs Klavsen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030317
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030317

If I set my Software Security device master password to a password containing
danish characters (זרו) it sets it fine - and it can accept it - if I enter it
and change it to something else.

But when I try to "backup" a certificate I have installed it asks for the
software security device master password - and it keeps doing that - when the
password contains danish characters.

If then go in and change the passwd to something without danish chars - it works
like a charm.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Daniel Wang]

related? bug 123880

Comment 2

[Jason M. Abels]

I think this is related to 123880. I imagine the danish characters use Unicode.

Comment 3

[dahlia van gelder]

Hi Simon, Every page refresh in mail, here (passworded site) I get a dialog box
that says "Please enter the password for the master security device". Owner of
this computer says he cannot take this request away. I can continue my life by
checking cancel or pressing escape so that it is an annoyance. (Mozilla is great!)
   Apologies if I should have submitted a "new bug"

Comment 4

[Dmitry Bakshaev]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910

certificate store (Software Security Device) inaccessible
with non-ascii characters in password.
but i can change it from "privacy-security - master passwords - change password"

Comment 5

[Dmitry Bakshaev]

same bug in:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804
Netscape/7.2 (ax)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. create new profile
2. import personal certificate, dialog "change master password" appears
3. set password. press ALT and type "250" on numpad
4. retype password. like step 3.
5. message "your certificate restored" popups
6. select certificate and press "backup"
7. type file name "mycert.p12", press OK
8. popup "Prompt Please enter the master password for the Software Security
Device" appears
9. input password like in step 3. press OK. password is declined.

test has shown range of valid characters from 32 to 126 (!).

Comment 6

[Josh Birnbaum]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 252436 ***