Bug 1417106
| Summary: | Logrotate Errors on Username/Groups with Spaces | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | Reporter: | MarkS <mark> |
| Component: | logrotate | Assignee: | Kamil Dudka <kdudka> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | qe-baseos-daemons |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | 7.2 | CC: | kdudka |
| Target Milestone: | rc | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | x86_64 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | If docs needed, set a value | |
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| Last Closed: | 2017-01-30 11:46:31 UTC | Type: | Bug |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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This needs to be implemented upstream first. Please submit a patch including a test-case at https://github.com/logrotate/logrotate/pulls and get it reviewed by the upstream community. For RHEL-7, closing WONTFIX. If you are a customer of Red Hat, please contact Product Support. |
Description of problem: If you use a space in a user/group name then logrotate will error out indicating that the usage was wrong. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): I do not believe this is version related but in my test it was: logrotate-3.8.6-7.el7_2.x86_64 How reproducible: Every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create a logrotate configuration and use a group name with spaces in the "su" or "create" directives. 2. Run: logrotate -d config 3. Error outputted Actual results: # cat /etc/logrotate.d/test /var/log/test/*.log { su Test "Test Group" weekly rotate 10 copytruncate delaycompress compress notifempty missingok } # logrotate -d /etc/logrotate.d/test reading config file /etc/logrotate.d/test error: /etc/logrotate.d/test:2 extra arguments for su error: found error in /var/log/test/*.log , skipping removing last 1 log configs Allocating hash table for state file, size 64 entries Handling 0 logs Expected results: Whilst spaces are not traditionally used in groups and users and indeed I am certain a lot of tools wouldn't accept it in the username. We have integration with Active Directory where it is acceptable. As such I would expect logrotate to handle the group name with spaces at least but preferably user and group. Additional info: I did experiment with other possible styles of inputting the group. su Test Test\ Group error: /etc/logrotate.d/test:2 extra arguments for su su Test "Test\ Group" error: /etc/logrotate.d/test:2 extra arguments for su su Test Test\040Group error: /etc/logrotate.d/test:2 unknown group 'Test\040Group' (1024 is the GID of "Test Group") su Test 1024 error: /etc/logrotate.d/test:2 unknown group '1024'