Bug 11944: Authentication

The password should be encoded before hashing.

Test plan:
- Before applying the patch, create a user with utf-8 in password
- apply patches
- try to log in
- change the password
- log out
- try to log in

Signed-off-by: Paola Rossi <paola.rossi@cineca.it>
Signed-off-by: Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel <bgkriegel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dobrica Pavlinusic <dpavlin@rot13.org>

Signed-off-by: Martin Renvoize <martin.renvoize@ptfs-europe.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Cohen Arazi <tomascohen@gmail.com>
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Jonathan Druart 2014-04-07 16:45:59 +02:00 committed by Tomas Cohen Arazi
parent 33d1281ef4
commit fe1e6d86ca
2 changed files with 7 additions and 0 deletions

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@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ use C4::VirtualShelves;
use Koha::AuthUtils qw(hash_password);
use POSIX qw/strftime/;
use List::MoreUtils qw/ any /;
use Encode qw( encode is_utf8);
# use utf8;
use vars qw($VERSION @ISA @EXPORT @EXPORT_OK %EXPORT_TAGS $debug $ldap $cas $caslogout $shib $shib_login);
@ -1650,6 +1651,9 @@ sub checkpw {
sub checkpw_internal {
my ( $dbh, $userid, $password ) = @_;
$password = Encode::encode( 'UTF-8', $password )
if Encode::is_utf8($password);
if ( $userid && $userid eq C4::Context->config('user') ) {
if ( $password && $password eq C4::Context->config('pass') ) {
# Koha superuser account

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@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ package Koha::AuthUtils;
use Modern::Perl;
use Crypt::Eksblowfish::Bcrypt qw(bcrypt en_base64);
use Encode qw( encode is_utf8 );
use Fcntl qw/O_RDONLY/; # O_RDONLY is used in generate_salt
use base 'Exporter';
@ -51,6 +52,8 @@ user passwords.
# Using Bcrypt method for hashing. This can be changed to something else in future, if needed.
sub hash_password {
my $password = shift;
$password = Encode::encode( 'UTF-8', $password )
if Encode::is_utf8($password);
# Generate a salt if one is not passed
my $settings = shift;