[pve-devel] [PATCH manager] ui: login: display error messages when logging

Maximiliano Sandoval m.sandoval at proxmox.com
Thu Apr 24 15:44:23 CEST 2025


This allows to distinguish, for example, the following three cases:

 - The pvedaemon service is not responding (595)
 - The pveproxy service is not responding (no error status code)
 - The authentication credentials are not correct (401)

Since different combinations of wrong password and/or wrong user all
report the same error message: "authentication failure (401)" this does
not leak login information.

Another consideration is that the code `resp.status` does not match the
HTTP code seen in the API (a failed authentication has a return code 200
from the point of view of the browser) and its information is lost
without this change.

Signed-off-by: Maximiliano Sandoval <m.sandoval at proxmox.com>
---
 www/manager6/window/LoginWindow.js | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/www/manager6/window/LoginWindow.js b/www/manager6/window/LoginWindow.js
index a1ba3cdb..066c053a 100644
--- a/www/manager6/window/LoginWindow.js
+++ b/www/manager6/window/LoginWindow.js
@@ -157,6 +157,14 @@ Ext.define('PVE.window.LoginWindow', {
 	    };
 
 	    let emsg = gettext("Login failed. Please try again");
+	    if (resp.status) {
+		emsg = Ext.String.format(
+		    "{0}<br>{1}<br>{2}",
+		    gettext("Login failed:"),
+		    resp.htmlStatus,
+		    gettext("Please try again"),
+		);
+	    }
 
 	    if (resp.failureType === "connect") {
 		emsg = gettext("Connection failure. Network error or Proxmox VE services not running?");
-- 
2.39.5





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