Changes in cli not showing up in commit list for cli user

[tappaul]

Hi experts,

Our application vDRA is using a rather primitive version of confd 6.3, I cannot be sure if that is EoL.

However, our customer is reporting a very unique problem.

If I were to setup a cli user with special characters in password like XXXX!X{[UV-], it cannot display the committed changes.

paul@orchestrator[drm01v]# show configuration commit changes 0
!
! Created by: admin
! Date: 2024-05-14 16:13:12
! Client: cli
!
% No configuration changes found.
paul@orchestrator[drm01v]# exit
Connection to localhost closed.
cps@drm01v:~$ cli
admin@localhost's password:
Welcome to the CPS CLI
admin connected from 172.17.0.1 using ssh on orchestrator
admin@orchestrator[drm01v]# show configuration commit changes 0
!
! Created by: admin
! Date: 2024-05-14 16:13:12
! Client: cli
!
aaa authentication users user paul
uid 9000
gid 100
password $1$DMExUlAA$E7eFu5UgP.nKQNdo8PGkW0
ssh_keydir ""
homedir ""
!
admin@orchestrator[drm01v]# show confd-state version
confd-state version 6.3

Has anyone experienced this issue in their deployments?

Any leads will be most appreciated.

Thanks,

Paul

[jvikman]

Hi Paul,

Yes ConfD 6.3 is EoL. With that said, I've never heard about your problem. I'm not sure I understand it completely either, is it that you set that specific password you get a problem?

Ask at the ConfD user community here: https://discuss.tail-f.com/

[tappaul]

Hi Johan,

Yes that's true, this happens only when the password has certain special characters as you can see above.

I'm not sure this may have gone unnoticed in later versions of confd as well.

Regards, 

Paul 

[jvikman]

Including the comma?

[tappaul]

Not including comma, but this can be a good test as well.

Regards,

Paul 

[cohult]

https://discuss.tail-f.com/t/special-characters-in-aaa-user-gives-conflicting-information/4693/2?u=cohult