MissingSectionHeaderError: File contains no section headers. file: C:\passwd, line: 1 'pjyang::37af6f35659301a97fd1ef8f944f34de\n'

[PJYang2009@…]

How to Reproduce

While doing a POST operation on /admin/accounts/users, Trac issued an internal error.

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Request parameters:

{'__FORM_TOKEN': u'5c2779003970b6454cf6a322',
 'cat_id': u'accounts',
 'panel_id': u'users',
 'path_info': None,
 'remove': u'Remove selected accounts'}

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; zh-CN; rv:1.9.2.6) Gecko/20100625 Firefox/3.6.6

System Information

Trac	0.12
Genshi	0.6
mod_python	3.3.1
pysqlite	2.5.5
Python	2.5.4 (r254:67916, Dec 23 2008, 15:10:54) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)]
setuptools	0.6c11
SQLite	3.6.11
Subversion	1.6.6 (r40053)
jQuery	1.4.2

Enabled Plugins

tracaccountmanager

0.3dev-r9338

Python Traceback

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "build\bdist.win32\egg\trac\web\main.py", line 513, in _dispatch_request
    dispatcher.dispatch(req)
  File "build\bdist.win32\egg\trac\web\main.py", line 235, in dispatch
    resp = chosen_handler.process_request(req)
  File "build\bdist.win32\egg\trac\admin\web_ui.py", line 116, in process_request
    path_info)
  File "build\bdist.win32\egg\acct_mgr\admin.py", line 123, in render_admin_panel
    return self._do_users(req)
  File "build\bdist.win32\egg\acct_mgr\admin.py", line 252, in _do_users
    for username in self.account_manager.get_users():
  File "build\bdist.win32\egg\acct_mgr\api.py", line 159, in get_users
    users.extend(store.get_users())
  File "build\bdist.win32\egg\acct_mgr\svnserve.py", line 53, in get_users
    return [user for (user,password) in self._config.options('users')]
  File "build\bdist.win32\egg\acct_mgr\svnserve.py", line 46, in _config
    self._userconf.parse_if_needed()
  File "build\bdist.win32\egg\trac\config.py", line 262, in parse_if_needed
    self.parser.read(self.filename)
  File "C:\PROGRA~1\BITNAM~1\python\lib\ConfigParser.py", line 267, in read
    self._read(fp, filename)
  File "C:\PROGRA~1\BITNAM~1\python\lib\ConfigParser.py", line 462, in _read
    raise MissingSectionHeaderError(fpname, lineno, line)
MissingSectionHeaderError: File contains no section headers.
file: C:\passwd, line: 1
'pjyang::37af6f35659301a97fd1ef8f944f34de\n'

[Ryan J Ollos]

Yet another incorrectly filed ticket.

[Steffen Hoffmann]

Sorry, that this report has gone undetected for such a long time. However, only the reporter is in charge to select an appropriate plugin for getting needed attention to his/her issue.

See #7260 for a similar issue, I already commented on. Sad to say, I got no response and therefore could not really do anything about it.

Btw, the double colon seems plain wrong. Did someone try to add a username with colon in it? This is prevented since [9260], because it's known to break applications exactly in the way shown here.