Bug 59627

Summary:	Usernames with spaces cause user-visible error on login
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Mark Cooke <mpc>
Component:	setup	Assignee:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Version:	7.2	CC:	rvokal
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Description Mark Cooke 2002-02-11 14:22:31 UTC

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Description of problem:
/etc/profile contains a number of places where variable expansion - particularly
of user and group names - with spaces cause error messages.

This was exposed using winbind and the latest samba packages.

Adding extra "'s around `id *` calls fixes this.

Ie,

if [ "`id -gn`" = "`id -un`" -a `id -u` -gt 14 ]; then
        umask 002
else
        umask 022
fi

(Just a bugzilla report against a message I read on the samba list)

As an extension to this, including files from /etc/profile.d/ doesn't look
space-safe either.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Setup a user name with a space
2.Login


Actual Results:  Doesn't reset the umask correctly.

Expected Results:  It should

Additional info:

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2002-02-11 16:22:15 UTC

Usernames with spaces are generally discouraged.

Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2002-03-11 06:06:22 UTC

Fixed in 2.5.8-1