Arch Forum User Registration is Broken

cvillelk · 2011-01-01 01:07:19

What is the output of "date -u +%j`uname`|sha256sum|sed 's/\W//g'"?

The new security question is broken as of Jan-01 (UTC)

date -u +%j$(uname)

evaluates to '001Linux'. The forum, however, expects '1Linux' passed to sha256sum|sed 's/\W//g'".

I'm a new user and had to run

echo '1Linux'|sha256sum|sed 's/\W//g'

in order to successfully register. Arch Forum mods owe me 5 minutes of my life back

karol · 2011-01-01 01:16:45

"You have learned well, young padawan!"

See, it wasn't that hard after all :-D

ngoonee · 2011-01-01 02:04:41

Congratulations, it seems its doing its job . Now we're sure you're not a bot!

chris-kun · 2011-01-01 10:39:30

just fyi, wiki reg was broken a few days ago for me, didn't bother to report it at the time, tho

Tarkus · 2011-01-01 23:33:41

Wow thanks! I was wondering what the heck I was doing wrong...

Happy new year

OzanGuven · 2011-01-02 10:48:11

I was also trying to register, thanks for the tip.

It is still buggy, as it is 2nd of Jan, you should use;

echo '2Linux'|sha256sum|sed 's/\W//g'

greyscale · 2011-01-02 10:50:18

I also ran into the bug, thanks for the hint

This will do the trick:

date -u +%j$(uname)|cut -b3-|sha256sum|sed 's/\W//g'

Awebb · 2011-01-02 12:12:34

So registering requires me to be in front of a linux box. Interesting.

karol · 2011-01-02 12:22:28

Awebb wrote:

So registering requires me to be in front of a linux box. Interesting.

We already had this discussion.
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 25#p827125
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 90#p828390
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 21#p828521

Last edited by karol (2011-01-02 12:28:46)

Awebb · 2011-01-02 12:29:05

karol wrote:

Awebb wrote:
So registering requires me to be in front of a linux box. Interesting.
We already had this discussion.

Must have missed this discussion. Anyway, I'm not in the mood to discuss such things, so I just find it interesting.

EDIT:

Tanks for the links.

Last edited by Awebb (2011-01-02 12:29:29)

Pierre · 2011-01-03 12:14:57

I am sorry for this issue. I missed the leading zeros when implementing this. The forum and wiki registration should show the correct bash code now.

It was not my intention to make the captcha harder by adding a bug to the code. ;-) Next time please file a bug report or send a mail to me so I can fix such issues in time. I am not reading every topic in the forums and just got point to this thread by pure luck.

Greetings,

Pierre

fahmed · 2012-01-03 16:09:45

I got this message while i was registering on this forum, whereas i never experienced. Well i would learn

ngoonee · 2012-01-04 03:01:20

Pierre wrote:

It was not my intention to make the captcha harder by adding a bug to the code. ;-)

You, sir, are a better man than I....

<mod-apology> I did not realize this was a year-old post. Closing.

Last edited by ngoonee (2012-01-04 03:23:39)

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