passwdpop function (cPanel API2) question

Serge SX

• January 13, 2016 06:15

Hello! Can anyone explain me a strange behavior of API processor? Here is the thing: I was changing passwords for mailboxes on server using .cpanel_internal_message { border: 1px solid #fff; outline-style: solid; outline-width: 1px; outline-color: #aaa; padding: 5px; } .cpanel_internal_error_warn { background-color: #FFF6CF; } .cpanel_internal_error_error { background-color: #F8E7E6; }

A warning occurred while processing this directive. [show]

utf8 "\xDE" does not map to Unicode at /usr/local/cpanel/Cpanel/JSON.pm line 155. at /usr/local/cpanel/Cpanel/JSON.pm line 155. Cpanel::JSON::LoadFile(GLOB(0x4985240), undef, 1) called at /usr/local/cpanel/Cpanel/AdminBin/Serializer.pm line 48 Cpanel::AdminBin::Serializer::LoadFile(GLOB(0x4985240)) called at cpanel.pl line 812 eval {...} called at cpanel.pl line 812

{"cpanelresult":{"apiversion":"2","data":{"reason":"Failed to read valid json data in json fast mode: illegal backslash escape sequence in string, at character offset 37 (before \"\\\\xDELiKJ*0\",\"domain...\") at /usr/local/cpanel/Cpanel/JSON.pm line 120, line 1.\n","result":"0"},"type":"text"}}
I discovered that it happened with the following password: ^@qZAX3Ca%dELiKJ*0 Furthermore, there will be no exception if you replace % character in it to another position or just even add one more near it. So what is wrong with % char? Is it about combination with "d" or "a" near it?

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  cPanelKenneth

  • January 13, 2016 11:39

  '%' often has special meaning. Does the problem go away when you URI encode % (replace % with %25)?

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  Serge SX

  • January 13, 2016 11:49

  '%' often has special meaning. Does the problem go away when you URI encode % (replace % with %25)?

  
  Yes, I suspected that. In order to make process simpler, I just removed "%" from the pool of characters for password generation - much easier than find and encode it every time. But thank you for the reply and advice!

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