[katello-devel] Username constraint

[Lukas Zapletal]

Oh I am apparently not as clever as UTF-8 encoding creators. Thank to
the encoding it can never happen any sequence ever encodes a ":" byte.
It is very subtle encoding, by the way :-)

So we just need to check for the ":" character. Simple.

RFE: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=784599

LZ

On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 03:17:30PM +0100, Lukas Zapletal wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 06:58:59AM -0700, Jason Rist wrote:
> > I think it's perfectly reasonable to limit usernames to not include a 
> > colon (:).
> >
> 
> I agree, but if we do it, we should do it properly. So it must not be
> found in the plain and UTF-8 encoded sequence.
> 
> It is possible that some Unicode username (like in Chinese) could
> possibly generate this sequence which would lead to "This username is
> not valid" error message.
> 
> Adding a RFEBZ then.
> 
> LZ
> 
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> Later,
> 
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 Lukas Zapletal | E32E400A
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