From: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>
To: pve-devel@lists.proxmox.com, pmg-devel@lists.proxmox.com
Subject: Re: [pve-devel] [PATCH-SERIES qemu-server/storage/common 0/4] fix UTF-8 handling for PBS_PASSWORD
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2025 11:36:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0169b425-6a8d-4eec-a906-198f856646d0@proxmox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251001104729.70314-1-f.ebner@proxmox.com>
Am 01.10.25 um 12:47 PM schrieb Fiona Ebner:
> 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.
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-10-01 10:47 Fiona Ebner
2025-10-01 10:47 ` [pve-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] [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 ` [pve-devel] [PATCH storage 3/4] pbs plugin: raw client command: " Fiona Ebner
2025-10-01 10:47 ` [pve-devel] [PATCH common 4/4] pbs client: allow using password that would be auto-encoded as neither ASCII nor UTF-8 Fiona Ebner
2025-11-17 10:36 ` Fiona Ebner [this message]
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