Jira (PUP-11137) Puppet cannot query non-ASCII users

[Dorin Pleava (Jira)]

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Puppet / PUP-11137 Puppet cannot query non-ASCII users Issue Type: Bug Assignee: Unassigned Created: 2021/06/30 6:05 AM Priority: Normal Reporter: Dorin Pleava On Debian 10(might be also other platforms affected) when querying a user that contains non-ASCII characters in its name, puppet errors out as seen below:   root@fell-scattergun:~# puppet --version 6.23.0   root@fell-scattergun:~# cat manifest.pp user { 'Gérard': ensure => present, password => 'pass', }   root@fell-scattergun:~# puppet apply manifest.pp Notice: Compiled catalog for fell-scattergun.delivery.puppetlabs.net in environment production in 0.01 seconds Notice: /Stage[main]/Main/User[Gérard]/ensure: created Notice: Applied catalog in 0.09 seconds   root@fell-scattergun:~# puppet resource user Gérard --trace Error: Could not run: incompatible character encodings: ASCII-8BIT and UTF-8 /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/vendor_gems/gems/fast_gettext-1.1.2/lib/fast_gettext/vendor/string.rb:70:in `%' /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/vendor_gems/gems/fast_gettext-1.1.2/lib/fast_gettext/vendor/string.rb:70:in `%' /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/puppet/resource.rb:489:in `to_manifest' /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/puppet/application/resource.rb:152:in `block (2 levels) in main' /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/puppet/application/resource.rb:151:in `map' /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/puppet/application/resource.rb:151:in `block in main' /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/puppet/context.rb:62:in `override' /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/puppet.rb:314:in `override' /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/puppet/application/resource.rb:138:in `main' /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/puppet/application.rb:390:in `run_command' /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/puppet/application.rb:382:in `block in run' /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/puppet/util.rb:735:in `exit_on_fail' /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/puppet/application.rb:382:in `run' /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/puppet/util/command_line.rb:143:in `run' /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/puppet/util/command_line.rb:77:in `execute' /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/bin/puppet:5:in `<main>' Checking variables from puppet/resource.rb shows: [1] pry(#<Puppet::Resource>)> self.type.to_s.downcase => "user" [2] pry(#<Puppet::Resource>)> escaped => "G\xC3\xA9rard" [3] pry(#<Puppet::Resource>)> attributes => " ensure => 'present',\n gid => 1020,\n home => '/home/G\u00E9rard',\n password => 'pass',\n password_max_age => 99999,\n password_min_age => 0,\n password_warn_days => 7,\n provider => 'useradd',\n shell => '/bin/sh',\n uid => 1020,\n" [4] pry(#<Puppet::Resource>)> [5] pry(#<Puppet::Resource>)> attributes.encoding => #<Encoding:UTF-8> [6] pry(#<Puppet::Resource>)> escaped.encoding => #<Encoding:ASCII-8BIT> This error seems to come from core Ruby which cannot handle concatenating differently encoded strings that contain special characters: # irb 2.7.3 :028 > a = "Gérard" => "Gérard" 2.7.3 :029 > b = "Gérard".force_encoding("ASCII-8BIT") => "G\xC3\xA9rard" 2.7.3 :030 > a + b Traceback (most recent call last): 5: from /Users/dorinpleava/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.7.3/bin/irb:23:in `<main>' 4: from /Users/dorinpleava/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.7.3/bin/irb:23:in `load' 3: from /Users/dorinpleava/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.7.3/lib/ruby/gems/2.7.0/gems/irb-1.2.6/exe/irb:11:in `<top (required)>' 2: from (irb):30 1: from (irb):30:in `+' Encoding::CompatibilityError (incompatible character encodings: UTF-8 and ASCII-8BIT) Add Comment

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