scrambles connection fields with certain chars in the password

The password is only accessible to users who have lpadmin privileges (with which
they could likely intercept it anyway).

 cupsys (1.1.23-10ubuntu2) breezy; urgency=low
 .
   * Added debian/patches/ubuntu-confpermissions.dpatch:
     - Add and document ConfigFilePerm to cupsd.conf and set it to 0600 to
       avoid exposing SMB passwords to lpadmin members. This makes it slightly
       harder to intercept the password. (Ubuntu #12036)

The indicated resolution doesn't appear to resolve the GUI display problem.

(In reply to comment #0)
> Also, the gui gnome-panel -> System -> Administration -> Printing -> [printer]
> -> Properties -> Connection panel shows the Windows password in cleartext in the
> Printer field (in fact what text is shown in which fields appears to be all
> screwed up).

(In reply to comment #3)
> The indicated resolution doesn't appear to resolve the GUI display problem.

That certainly works fine in Hoary and Breezy, the fields are not scrambled and
the password is displayed as stars. Are you on Warty?

I am on Hoary (5.04). In the Connection panel, I have the following:
 Printer Type: Network Printer -- Windows Printer (SMB)
 Host: <my windows domain>\<my windows userid>
 Printer: <my windows password>@<print server>/<printer name>
 Username: <empty> Password: **********************
Note that the stars in the Password field fill the entire field, which is much
longer than my actual password.

(In reply to comment #5)
> I am on Hoary (5.04). In the Connection panel, I have the following:
> Printer Type: Network Printer -- Windows Printer (SMB)
> Host: <my windows domain>\<my windows userid>
> Printer: <my windows password>@<print server>/<printer name>
> Username: <empty> Password: **********************

Wow, that doesn't happen here. Can you please attach your
/etc/cups/printers.conf with your user/password replaced by "user" and
"password"? Maybe I can reproduce it then.

my /etc/cups/printers.conf:

# Printer configuration file for CUPS v1.1.23
# Written by cupsd on Mon 20 Jun 2005 02:12:10 PM CDT
<DefaultPrinter Color-LaserJet-4600>
Info Color-LaserJet-4600
DeviceURI smb://se\williamsgp:<email address hidden>/4847-1079
State Idle
Accepting Yes
JobSheets none none
QuotaPeriod 0
PageLimit 0
KLimit 0
</Printer>

Hi George,

Thanks for your cupsd.conf. Indeed I now can replicate your problem. It seems
that the bug is in the URL parser of g-c-m, it seems to break with the '/'
contained in the password.

Since the other bug has been fixed, I devote this bug for the GUI problem now.
Thanks for your help!

Seems to be an easy fix, raising priority.

Just for the record, when hand-editing my cupsd/printers.conf, I found that simply %-escaping problematic characters in passwords would work just fine. I imagine %, /, :, and @ at least should be escaped (i.e. %25, %2F, %3A, and %40, respectively). Sorry if this is so trivial as to be useless ...