LDAP uid with spaces

[Manuel Vacelet]

Hi all,

ssh usernames cannot contains spaces.

Some LDAP are configured to have uid with spaces (I even know admins who set single quotes in uid...).

I read about accountSshUserName in documentation[1], it's about changing case or picking a part of an LDAP attribute.

It will not do the job in my case (I don't have attributes that could be used for that purpose). But what is available as transformations at configuration level ?

For instance I'd like to replace spaces (and quotes, no laugh) by underscore, is that possible ?

[1] http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.6/config-gerrit.html#ldap.accountSshUserName

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[Shawn Pearce]

On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 6:35 AM, Manuel Vacelet <manuel....@gmail.com> wrote:
> ssh usernames cannot contains spaces.
> Some LDAP are configured to have uid with spaces (I even know admins who set
> single quotes in uid...).
>
> I read about accountSshUserName in documentation[1], it's about changing
> case or picking a part of an LDAP attribute.
>
> It will not do the job in my case (I don't have attributes that could be
> used for that purpose). But what is available as transformations at
> configuration level ?
> For instance I'd like to replace spaces (and quotes, no laugh) by
> underscore, is that possible ?

Not supported because this has never been raised as an issue before. :-)

[Manuel Vacelet]

Yeah, sometime $DAY_JOB and $CUSTOMER[] are enlightening :)

Anyway, shall I fill an issue in the bug tracker for that ?

Manuel
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[Shawn Pearce]

Sure. Or better, send us a patch to Gerrit that supports what you want. :-)

[Manuel Vacelet]

I'd love to but my Java skills are way behind what is required to contribute to Gerrit (I already tried to fix the case issue on authGroup in replication plugin, with no luck).

Manuel

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[Robin Rosenberg]

----- Ursprungligt meddelande -----

> Hi all,
>
> ssh usernames cannot contains spaces.

I think this assertion is wrong. Both ssh and git using the
ssh protocol accept spaces in user names. Just quote them.

git clone "name with spaces"@server:path
ssh "name with spaces"@server
scp "name with spaces"@server:file

I did not try it with Gerrit though, just regular ssh and
Linux (RHEL) openssh 5.4. On OSX (mountain lion) scp did
not accept spaces, but ssh and git does.

Whether it's a good idea or not is another question...

-- robin

[Manuel Vacelet]

On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Robin Rosenberg <robin.r...@dewire.com> wrote:

----- Ursprungligt meddelande -----

> Hi all,
>
> ssh usernames cannot contains spaces.

I think this assertion is wrong. Both ssh and git using the
ssh protocol accept spaces in user names. Just quote them.

Agreed, I was talking about gerrit ssh usernames.