> 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
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
.Kind regards,
J. Bern
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