severity 488635 wishlist retitle 488635 please support group names with spaces tag 488635 + wontfix thanks
On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 10:56 +0200, Andreas Schultz wrote: > samba with LDAP based accounts uses Groups and Usernames that can > contain spaces. nslcd refuses to map those names and logs a error > message: [...] > The "old" libnss-ldap does not have this problem. This is true and by design. I need a test for validity of user and group names (mostly to distinguish DN values from name values in certain cases). I took the POSIX specification as a basis for this: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/xbd_chap03.html#tag_03_189 http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/xbd_chap03.html#tag_03_276 I don't think that having spaces in POSIX group names is a good idea because it is bound to break stuff. If you can come up with good arguments as to why this should be supported I may reconsider though. Anyway, extending the test isn't difficult, if you want to have a patched version the code is in nslcd/common.c in the isvalidname() function. -- -- arthur - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://people.debian.org/~adejong --
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