On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 11:48:23AM +0100, Lukas Slebodnik wrote:
> ehlo,
>
> resendig patch from trac to review.
>
> Original patches submitted by: mpesari(Thanks!!)
>
> It can cause problems if user will hit spaces before entering username.
> (e.g in gdm). Spaces are ignored by LDAP; it's better to escape them.
>
> Resolves:
>
https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/ticket/1955
I tested that the issue the ticket describes is resolved and normal
functionality (including lookups of groups with spaces, tested with
"domain users") still works.
So ACK to the patch
>
> Do we want to escape '\t' (horizontal tab) as well?
>
> LS
We could, for completeness' sake, but I don't think that users would run
into the issue described originally. The spacebar is much easier target
than tab key :-)