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Groups with spaces in names not handled correctly in group file

Bug #6012: Groups with spaces in names not handled correctly in group file

Added by Chris Buechler over 10 years ago. Updated over 10 years ago.

Status:
Resolved
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
Chris Buechler
Category:
User Manager / Privileges
Target version:
2.3
Start date:
03/19/2016
Due date:
% Done:

100%

Estimated time:
Plus Target Version:
Release Notes:
Affected Version:
All
Affected Architecture:

Description

Group names that contain spaces are added to the group file with only the last word of the group name. So if you have, say, "My Users" and "VPN Users", you end up with just "Users" in the group file.

In 2.2.x, you have multiple groups with the same name. In 2.3 it's handled more sane, in that you won't end up with a conflicting group name, but only end up with one of the conflicting groups in the group file.

This causes a serious problem on upgrade to 2.3 where there are conflicts because pw in FreeBSD 10.3 ends up stuck in a never-ending loop when trying to modify a user in one of the affected groups. Then local_sync_users function in rc.bootup never finishes, which leaves the bootup incomplete.

Need to:
1) prohibit spaces in group names, since they go straight into the group file
2) add config upgrade code to replace spaces in group names with _ to avoid problems

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