Package: nslcd Version: 0.7.13 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Hi,
nslcd refuses to return group names which contain a tilde. It does this on the basis that it's not part of the portable filename character set: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap03.html#tag_03_276 I would argue that it's not really nslcd's job to validate what's in the directory and that it's up to the user to decide whether he cares about the portability of his user/group names. You have already added exceptions by allowing "$" and I would like to ask you to add another exception for "~". But you should probably revisit the problem as a whole. Good programming principles is to be tolerant in what you read but be strict in what you send. By that I mean that it's not really nslcd's job to impose supplementary restrictions that are not needed. Or at least those restrictions should be configurable so that they can be disabled. For your information, the diff I used to fix the problem that a customer of mine encountered is here: https://launchpad.net/~hertzog/+archive/freexian-bugfixes/+files/nss-pam-ldapd_0.7.2-1.diff.gz -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (150, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
