[pve-devel] [PATCH installer 1/1] assistant: validate: add verify-password option

[Peter via pve-devel <pve-devel@lists.proxmox.com>]

[-- Attachment #1: Type: message/rfc822, Size: 10629 bytes --]

From: Peter <pjcreath+proxmox@gmail.com>
To: pve-devel@lists.proxmox.com
Subject: [PATCH installer 1/1] assistant: validate: add verify-password option
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2025 14:26:03 -0400
Message-ID: <20250829182603.46493-1-pjcreath+proxmox@gmail.com>

Adds an option to interactively verify the hashed root password in
the answer file, so that mistakes can be caught before installation.

Signed-off-by: Peter <pjcreath+proxmox@gmail.com>
---

 In preparing an answer file for auto-installation, I somehow mangled
 the hashed root password, which I only discovered after performing
 the automated installation.

 This patch adds an option to the auto-install assistant that lets
 the user verify the hash in the answer file by interactively typing
 in the expected password and checking it against the hash.

 I don't love that I had to add an unsafe call to crypt(), but there
 isn't a Rust implementation of yescrypt. To minimize the impact
 I wrapped the unsafe call in its own function.

 This is my first submission to this mailing list. I've tried to
 follow all of the guidelines in the developer documentation, so
 please forgive any oversights and let me know if there's anything
 I should do differently.

 proxmox-auto-install-assistant/Cargo.toml  |  2 +
 proxmox-auto-install-assistant/src/main.rs | 51 +++++++++++++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 52 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/proxmox-auto-install-assistant/Cargo.toml b/proxmox-auto-install-assistant/Cargo.toml
index 9b4a9c4..8af7d9d 100644
--- a/proxmox-auto-install-assistant/Cargo.toml
+++ b/proxmox-auto-install-assistant/Cargo.toml
@@ -17,4 +17,6 @@ proxmox-installer-common = { workspace = true, features = [ "cli" ] }
 serde_json.workspace = true
 toml.workspace = true
 
+crypt-sys = "0.1"
 glob = "0.3"
+rpassword = "7.2"
diff --git a/proxmox-auto-install-assistant/src/main.rs b/proxmox-auto-install-assistant/src/main.rs
index 5d6c1d5..88d0032 100644
--- a/proxmox-auto-install-assistant/src/main.rs
+++ b/proxmox-auto-install-assistant/src/main.rs
@@ -2,10 +2,13 @@
 //! Additional uses are to validate the format of an answer file or to test match filters and print
 //! information on the properties to match against for the current hardware.
 
-#![forbid(unsafe_code)]
+//#![deny(unsafe_code)]
 
 use anyhow::{Context, Result, bail, format_err};
+use crypt_sys::crypt;
 use glob::Pattern;
+use rpassword::prompt_password;
+use std::ffi::{CStr, CString};
 use std::{
     collections::BTreeMap,
     fmt, fs,
@@ -153,12 +156,15 @@ struct CommandValidateAnswerArgs {
     path: PathBuf,
     /// Whether to also show the full answer as parsed.
     debug: bool,
+    /// Interactively verify the hashed root password.
+    verify_password: bool,
 }
 
 impl cli::Subcommand for CommandValidateAnswerArgs {
     fn parse(args: &mut cli::Arguments) -> Result<Self> {
         Ok(Self {
             debug: args.contains(["-d", "--debug"]),
+            verify_password: args.contains("--verify-password"),
             // Needs to be last
             path: args.free_from_str()?,
         })
@@ -176,6 +182,7 @@ ARGUMENTS:
 
 OPTIONS:
   -d, --debug        Also show the full answer as parsed.
+      --verify-password  Interactively verify the hashed root password.
   -h, --help         Print this help
   -V, --version      Print version
     "#,
@@ -545,6 +552,42 @@ fn validate_answer_file_keys(path: impl AsRef<Path> + fmt::Debug) -> Result<bool
     }
 }
 
+/// Wrapper around the unsafe system `crypt` library
+#[allow(unsafe_code)]
+fn system_crypt(password: &str, hash: &str) -> Result<bool> {
+    let password_c = CString::new(password.as_bytes()).unwrap();
+    let hash_c = CString::new(hash.as_bytes()).unwrap();
+
+    let hashed_attempt = unsafe {
+        let result_ptr = crypt(password_c.as_ptr(), hash_c.as_ptr());
+        if result_ptr.is_null() {
+            bail!("crypt() call failed");
+        }
+        // result_ptr is a statically allocated block in the library,
+        // so it doesn't need to be freed.
+        CStr::from_ptr(result_ptr).to_string_lossy().into_owned()
+    };
+
+    Ok(hashed_attempt == hash)
+}
+
+fn verify_hashed_password_interactive(answer: &Answer) -> Result<()> {
+    if let Some(hashed) = &answer.global.root_password_hashed {
+        println!("Verifying hashed root password.");
+        let password = prompt_password("Enter root password to verify: ")
+            .context("Failed to read password")?;
+
+        if system_crypt(&password, hashed)? {
+            println!("Password matches hashed password.");
+            Ok(())
+        } else {
+            bail!("Password does not match hashed password.");
+        }
+    } else {
+        bail!("'root-password-hashed' not set in answer file, cannot verify.");
+    }
+}
+
 fn validate_answer(args: &CommandValidateAnswerArgs) -> Result<()> {
     let mut valid = validate_answer_file_keys(&args.path)?;
 
@@ -553,6 +596,12 @@ fn validate_answer(args: &CommandValidateAnswerArgs) -> Result<()> {
             if args.debug {
                 println!("Parsed data from answer file:\n{:#?}", answer);
             }
+            if args.verify_password {
+                if let Err(err) = verify_hashed_password_interactive(&answer) {
+                    eprintln!("{err:#}");
+                    valid = false;
+                }
+            }
         }
         Err(err) => {
             eprintln!("{err:#}");
-- 
2.47.2



[-- Attachment #2: Type: text/plain, Size: 160 bytes --]

_______________________________________________
pve-devel mailing list
pve-devel@lists.proxmox.com
https://lists.proxmox.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pve-devel