GBDE not protecting the user

[Andrii Stesin]

Hi,

any news on the topic?

Thanks!
WBR,
Andrii


On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 7:35 PM, Michael W. Lucas
<mwlucas at michaelwlucas.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 01:59:44PM -0400, Michael W. Lucas wrote:
>> On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 11:17:23AM -0400, Allan Jude wrote:
>> > Michael: please file a PR on this now that it is confirmed, and together
>> > we can nag someone to fix it.
>>
>> Fair enough.
>>
>> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=194304
>
> Following up on my own bug report:
>
> This seems to be a generic GBDE error message breakage. Here I change
> key 0's passphrase and key file.
>
> # gbde setkey da0p1 -n 0 -l da0p1.lock -k rat.jpg -L da0p1.lock-new
> Enter passphrase:
> Opened with key 0
> Enter new passphrase:
> Reenter new passphrase:
>
> I now have a new lock file with a new passphrase. Let's try the old
> key file and see what happens. It appears to work, except it doesn't.
>
> # gbde attach da0p1 -l da0p1.lock -k rat.jpg
> Enter passphrase:
> # ls /dev/da0p1*
> /dev/da0p1
> # gbde detach da0p1
> gbde: Detach of da0p1 failed: Geom not found: "da0p1.bde"
>
> The new lock file and passphrase do work.
>
> I would have expected the attach command to call me an idiot rather
> than fail silently. An ignorant, uneducated, non-programmer look at
> the code encourages my belief.
>
> Bug report updated.
>
> ==ml
>
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