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* [PATCH pve-storage 0/2] fix #7360: esxi: write password file as
@ 2026-10-05 10:55 Arthur Bied-Charreton
  2026-10-05 10:55 ` [PATCH pve-storage 1/2] fix #7360: esxi: store password file as utf-8 Arthur Bied-Charreton
  2026-10-05 10:55 ` [PATCH pve-storage 2/2] esxi: rewrite non-UTF-8 password files Arthur Bied-Charreton
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Arthur Bied-Charreton @ 2026-10-05 10:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: pve-devel

The first commit fixes the original issue, where at creation time, the
password file would not be saved as UTF-8. This led to decoding errors
when listing VMs (and presumably in the FUSE tool, although I did not
specifically test that path).

The second commit additionally rewrites non-UTF-8-encoded password files
as UTF-8 to catch pre-existing broken password files.

More details in the messages. 

Arthur Bied-Charreton (2):
  fix #7360: esxi: store password file as utf-8
  esxi: rewrite non-UTF-8 password files

 src/PVE/Storage/ESXiPlugin.pm | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

-- 
2.47.3





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* [PATCH pve-storage 1/2] fix #7360: esxi: store password file as utf-8
  2026-10-05 10:55 [PATCH pve-storage 0/2] fix #7360: esxi: write password file as Arthur Bied-Charreton
@ 2026-10-05 10:55 ` Arthur Bied-Charreton
  2026-10-05 10:55 ` [PATCH pve-storage 2/2] esxi: rewrite non-UTF-8 password files Arthur Bied-Charreton
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Arthur Bied-Charreton @ 2026-10-05 10:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: pve-devel

The password reaches esxi_set_credentials() as a Perl string, and
file_set_contents() wrote it without encoding it. For characters in the
U+0080 to U+00FF range, like 'é', this produced Latin-1 bytes. Both
listvms.py and the FUSE tool decode the pasword file as UTF-8, so
listing guests failed with a decode error.

Force UTF-8 encoding when writing the file. Existing storages with an
affected password need to have their password set again to rewrite the
file.

Link: https://bugzilla.proxmox.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7360
Signed-off-by: Arthur Bied-Charreton <a.bied-charreton@proxmox.com>
---
 src/PVE/Storage/ESXiPlugin.pm | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/PVE/Storage/ESXiPlugin.pm b/src/PVE/Storage/ESXiPlugin.pm
index bc2e481..7defb7b 100644
--- a/src/PVE/Storage/ESXiPlugin.pm
+++ b/src/PVE/Storage/ESXiPlugin.pm
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ sub esxi_set_credentials {
     my $cred_file = esxi_cred_file_name($storeid);
     mkdir "/etc/pve/priv/storage";
 
-    PVE::Tools::file_set_contents($cred_file, $password);
+    PVE::Tools::file_set_contents($cred_file, $password, 0600, 1);
 
     return $cred_file;
 }
-- 
2.47.3





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* [PATCH pve-storage 2/2] esxi: rewrite non-UTF-8 password files
  2026-10-05 10:55 [PATCH pve-storage 0/2] fix #7360: esxi: write password file as Arthur Bied-Charreton
  2026-10-05 10:55 ` [PATCH pve-storage 1/2] fix #7360: esxi: store password file as utf-8 Arthur Bied-Charreton
@ 2026-10-05 10:55 ` Arthur Bied-Charreton
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Arthur Bied-Charreton @ 2026-10-05 10:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: pve-devel

Before the previous commit, passwords containing characters in the
U+0080 to U+00FF range were written as Latin-1, whcih listvms.py and the
FUSE tool choked on. Existing storages would keep failing until their
password was set again.

The old code wrote each such character as a single byte, so a password
file that is not valid UTF-8 can only be Latin-1. Before querying the
host, rewrite such a file as UTF-8, which recovers the original password
exactly.

Signed-off-by: Arthur Bied-Charreton <a.bied-charreton@proxmox.com>
---
 src/PVE/Storage/ESXiPlugin.pm | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/PVE/Storage/ESXiPlugin.pm b/src/PVE/Storage/ESXiPlugin.pm
index 7defb7b..3c0c9e3 100644
--- a/src/PVE/Storage/ESXiPlugin.pm
+++ b/src/PVE/Storage/ESXiPlugin.pm
@@ -147,6 +147,13 @@ sub get_manifest : prototype($$$;$) {
     my $host = $scfg->{server};
     my $user = $scfg->{username};
     my $pwfile = esxi_cred_file_name($storeid);
+
+    # migrate pre-existing passwords affected by #7360
+    if (-e $pwfile) {
+        my $pw = file_get_contents($pwfile);
+        esxi_set_credentials($pw, $storeid) if !utf8::decode(my $tmp = $pw);
+    }
+
     my $json = '';
     my $errmsg = '';
     eval {
-- 
2.47.3





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