Bug 807304

Summary: ipa permission-add throws internal server error when name contains '<' or '>'
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Namita Soman <nsoman>
Component: ipaAssignee: Rob Crittenden <rcritten>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: IDM QE LIST <seceng-idm-qe-list>
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Version: 6.2CC: jgalipea, mkosek
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Fixed In Version: ipa-2.2.0-9.el6 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Namita Soman 2012-03-27 13:15:22 UTC 
Description of problem:
Adding a permission with name containing '<' or '>' throws error:
ipa: ERROR: cannot connect to u'http://qe-blade-13.testrelm.com/ipa/xml': Internal Server Error


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
ipa-server-2.2.0-5.el6.x86_64

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Add a permission with name "a<a" or "a>a"
ipa permission-add --permissions=write --attrs=description --type=user "a>a"

Actual results:
Got error:
ipa: ERROR: cannot connect to u'http://qe-blade-13.testrelm.com/ipa/xml': Internal Server Error


Expected results:
If there are characters that are not allowed in permission names, an error message indicating that should be thrown.

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Comment 2 Martin Kosek 2012-03-27 13:32:42 UTC 
Upstream ticket:
https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/2585
Comment 3 Namita Soman 2012-03-27 14:26:20 UTC 
Created attachment 573079 [details]
attached error indicated in /var/log/httpd/error_log
Comment 4 Rob Crittenden 2012-04-10 18:08:06 UTC 
Fixed upstream

master: 6e5c8b25bffa2b62a2233c0347c2ed3dd081d4a9

ipa-2-2: 04427136b097daebedbb08532c935f605b908905

Only letters, numbers, -, _, and space are allowed.
Comment 8 Martin Kosek 2012-04-25 10:54:17 UTC 
    Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field
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Comment 9 Namita Soman 2012-04-26 12:02:05 UTC 
Verified using ipa-server-2.2.0-11.el6.x86_64

Executing: ipa permission-add Test<Permission --permissions="write" --type=user --attr=carlicense,description 
ipa: ERROR: invalid 'name': May only contain letters, numbers, -, _, and space
Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2012-06-20 13:25:30 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2012-0819.html