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From: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>
To: pve-devel@lists.proxmox.com, pmg-devel@lists.proxmox.com
Subject: [pve-devel] [PATCH-SERIES qemu-server/storage/common 0/4] fix UTF-8 handling for PBS_PASSWORD
Date: Wed,  1 Oct 2025 12:47:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251001104729.70314-1-f.ebner@proxmox.com> (raw)

The PBS password is saved as UTF-8 and decoded to Perl's internal
string representation upon reading from the password file. When the
password contains multi-byte UTF-8 characters, backing up a diskless
VM would fail with:
> Error: error building client for repository XXX -
> PBS_PASSWORD contains bad characters

The same error would occur for uploading the log file after backup, as
well as extracting the configuration file from backup.

Restoring would fail with:
> restore failed: invalid utf-8 sequence of 1 bytes from index 0

Fix these issues by properly encoding the value for the PBS_PASSWORD
environment variable value again as UTF-8.

For PMG, using passwords that would be auto-encoded by Perl as either
ASCII or UTF-8 already worked, but other encodings would not, for
example ISO-8859 would result in:
> proxmox-backup-client failed: Error: error building client for
> repository latin@pbs@10.10.100.180:8007:bigone - PBS_PASSWORD
> contains bad characters (500)

Follow pve-storage commit 5245e04 ("fix #5181: pbs: store and read
passwords as unicode") and align the behavior of the storage plugin
and pbs client module.

qemu-server:

Fiona Ebner (2):
  qmp client: encode JSON as UTF-8 to fix PBS backup when password
    contains multi-byte UTF-8
  pbs: properly encode PBS password as UTF-8 when setting the
    environment variable

 src/PVE/QMPClient.pm         | 14 ++++++++------
 src/PVE/QemuServer.pm        |  4 ++++
 src/PVE/VZDump/QemuServer.pm |  4 ++++
 3 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)


storage:

Fiona Ebner (1):
  pbs plugin: raw client command: properly encode PBS password as UTF-8
    when setting the environment variable

 src/PVE/Storage/PBSPlugin.pm | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)


common:

Fiona Ebner (1):
  pbs client: allow using password that would be auto-encoded as neither
    ASCII nor UTF-8

 src/PVE/PBSClient.pm | 13 ++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)


Summary over all repositories:
  5 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

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From: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>
To: pve-devel@lists.proxmox.com, pmg-devel@lists.proxmox.com
Subject: [pmg-devel] [PATCH-SERIES qemu-server/storage/common 0/4] fix UTF-8 handling for PBS_PASSWORD
Date: Wed,  1 Oct 2025 12:47:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251001104729.70314-1-f.ebner@proxmox.com> (raw)

The PBS password is saved as UTF-8 and decoded to Perl's internal
string representation upon reading from the password file. When the
password contains multi-byte UTF-8 characters, backing up a diskless
VM would fail with:
> Error: error building client for repository XXX -
> PBS_PASSWORD contains bad characters

The same error would occur for uploading the log file after backup, as
well as extracting the configuration file from backup.

Restoring would fail with:
> restore failed: invalid utf-8 sequence of 1 bytes from index 0

Fix these issues by properly encoding the value for the PBS_PASSWORD
environment variable value again as UTF-8.

For PMG, using passwords that would be auto-encoded by Perl as either
ASCII or UTF-8 already worked, but other encodings would not, for
example ISO-8859 would result in:
> proxmox-backup-client failed: Error: error building client for
> repository latin@pbs@10.10.100.180:8007:bigone - PBS_PASSWORD
> contains bad characters (500)

Follow pve-storage commit 5245e04 ("fix #5181: pbs: store and read
passwords as unicode") and align the behavior of the storage plugin
and pbs client module.

qemu-server:

Fiona Ebner (2):
  qmp client: encode JSON as UTF-8 to fix PBS backup when password
    contains multi-byte UTF-8
  pbs: properly encode PBS password as UTF-8 when setting the
    environment variable

 src/PVE/QMPClient.pm         | 14 ++++++++------
 src/PVE/QemuServer.pm        |  4 ++++
 src/PVE/VZDump/QemuServer.pm |  4 ++++
 3 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)


storage:

Fiona Ebner (1):
  pbs plugin: raw client command: properly encode PBS password as UTF-8
    when setting the environment variable

 src/PVE/Storage/PBSPlugin.pm | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)


common:

Fiona Ebner (1):
  pbs client: allow using password that would be auto-encoded as neither
    ASCII nor UTF-8

 src/PVE/PBSClient.pm | 13 ++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)


Summary over all repositories:
  5 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

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             reply	other threads:[~2025-10-01 10:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-10-01 10:47 Fiona Ebner [this message]
2025-10-01 10:47 ` [pmg-devel] " Fiona Ebner
2025-10-01 10:47 ` [pmg-devel] [PATCH qemu-server 1/4] qmp client: encode JSON as UTF-8 to fix PBS backup when password contains multi-byte UTF-8 Fiona Ebner
2025-10-01 10:47   ` [pve-devel] " Fiona Ebner
2025-10-01 10:47 ` [pve-devel] [PATCH qemu-server 2/4] pbs: properly encode PBS password as UTF-8 when setting the environment variable Fiona Ebner
2025-10-01 10:47   ` [pmg-devel] " Fiona Ebner
2025-10-01 10:47 ` [pve-devel] [PATCH storage 3/4] pbs plugin: raw client command: " Fiona Ebner
2025-10-01 10:47   ` [pmg-devel] " Fiona Ebner
2025-10-01 10:47 ` [pmg-devel] [PATCH common 4/4] pbs client: allow using password that would be auto-encoded as neither ASCII nor UTF-8 Fiona Ebner
2025-10-01 10:47   ` [pve-devel] " Fiona Ebner

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