On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 05:46:33PM +0200, Sumit Bose wrote:
On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 03:56:50PM +0200, Jakub Hrozek wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 06:27:01PM +0200, Sumit Bose wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > this patch adds some additional checks to the logic or replacing space
> > with a different character. The idea is to not replace the space if we
> > might run into trouble with the modified name and log an error.
> >
> > As mentioned in the commit message if the original name already contains
> > the replacement character the original name is used and if the input for
> > the revers operation contains both space and the replacement character
> > the input is returned unmodified as well. As an alternative it would be
> > possible to return NULL and cause an error during the lookup. I think
> > returning the unmodified name is more user friendly. The admin might
> > wonder why the space is not replaced but at least the name is resolved.
> >
> > With this patch a name like 'abc def_ghi' is return unmodified if the
> > replacement character is '_' . But without the check
'abc_def_ghi' is
> > returned which cannot be resolved back which might cause more trouble
> > than the space in the name.
> >
> > bye,
> > Sumit
>
>
> Did you consider shouting to syslog so that the failure is better
> discoverable for the admin?
New version calling sss_log() as well is attached. Please note that
sss_log() might be broken in master, see my other patch for this.
bye,
Sumit
Thank you, ACK.