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On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 07:21:37PM +0100, Jochen Bern said:
> On 01/13/2011 04:52 PM, Stephen Gran wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 02:58:01PM +0100, Andreas Ericsson said:
> >> I wonder what happens when eu-admins is both a user
> >> (from the apache view of things) as well as a contactgroup, but not a
> >> contact. That's one of the things that absolutely has to keep working,
> >> or a lot of people's setups will break.
> > I was planning to use a marker to specify that it is a group, whether %
> > like sudo or @ like many other things
>=20
> 1. Both "%" and "@" are legal separators for e-mail addresses, which are
> getting more and more popular as "usernames" for all sorts of web UI
> logins. I doubt they're safe to forcefully overload, even as
> username[0].
> 2. I don't think that there's *any* printable character which is prima
> facie illegal in Basic Auth usernames. Not even the "," (and "=3D"?)
> that cgi.cfg sets aside as its separator char(s).
> 3. Suggestion: Make the marker configurable (so that admins can work
> around odd username[0]s already in use), with setting it to '\0' or
> somesuch effectively disabling the new feature (for the rare cases
> where the user base took pride in having really *every* printable
> character covered
.I tend to agree - I'm not wedded to either of % or @ (or any other
marker in particular), but was interested in keeping the footprint of
the patch small.
Cheers,
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