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Bug 1812062 - [Documentation] Requesting documentation update for list of prohibited characters in with firewall-cmd's --new-service parameter
Summary: [Documentation] Requesting documentation update for list of prohibited charac...
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Classification: Red Hat
Component: firewalld
Version: 8.1
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
medium
medium
Target Milestone: rc
: 8.0
Assignee: Eric Garver
QA Contact: Tomas Dolezal
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks: 1812995
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2020-03-10 13:13 UTC by Vipul Vaidya
Modified: 2023-12-15 17:28 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version: firewalld-0.8.2-1.el8
Doc Type: No Doc Update
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2020-11-04 01:39:57 UTC
Type: Bug
Target Upstream Version:
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Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2020:4461 0 None None None 2020-11-04 01:40:21 UTC

Description Vipul Vaidya 2020-03-10 13:13:55 UTC 
Description of problem:
- Customer is requesting to update the documentation of firewalld which contains the characters prohibited for use while creating a new service.
- I tried checking the documentation of RHEL7 and RHEL8 and do not see any information on the use of special characters
- Requesting an update of documentation as per concern raised by the customer. 


RHEL8:
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  5.8.4. Adding new services
  https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html-single/securing_networks/index

  31.8.4. Adding new services
  https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html-single/configuring_and_managing_networking/index#adding-new-services_controlling-network-traffic-using-firewalld  
+++++

RHEL7:
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  5.6.5. Adding New Services
  https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html-single/security_guide/index#sec-Adding_New_Services
+++++


Steps to Reproduce:
- Customer is executing below command every time with a new special character
~# firewall-cmd --permanent --new-service=<service-name>

Actual results:
- Various set of result obtained with each special character:
Error: INVALID_NAME: '[' is not allowed in 'test[thing'
Error: INVALID_NAME: '' is not allowed in 'test\thing'
Error: INVALID_NAME: ']' is not allowed in 'test]thing'
Error: INVALID_NAME: '^' is not allowed in 'test^thing'
Error: INVALID_NAME: '' is not allowed in 'testthing'
Error: INVALID_NAME: '!' is not allowed in 'test!thing'
Error: INVALID_NAME: '"' is not allowed in 'test"thing'
Error: INVALID_NAME: '#' is not allowed in 'test#thing'
Error: INVALID_NAME: '$' is not allowed in 'test$thing'
Error: INVALID_NAME: '%' is not allowed in 'test%thing'
Error: INVALID_NAME: '&' is not allowed in 'test&thing'
Error: INVALID_NAME: ''' is not allowed in 'test'thing'
Error: INVALID_NAME: '(' is not allowed in 'test(thing'
Error: INVALID_NAME: ')' is not allowed in 'test)thing'
Error: INVALID_NAME: '' is not allowed in 'testthing'
Error: INVALID_NAME: '+' is not allowed in 'test+thing'
Error: INVALID_NAME: ',' is not allowed in 'test,thing'
Error: INVALID_NAME: '.' is not allowed in 'test.thing'
Error: INVALID_NAME: '/' is not allowed in 'test/thing'
Error: INVALID_NAME: ':' is not allowed in 'test:thing'
Error: INVALID_NAME: ';' is not allowed in 'test;thing'
Error: INVALID_NAME: '<' is not allowed in 'test<thing'
Error: INVALID_NAME: '=' is not allowed in 'test=thing'
Error: INVALID_NAME: '>' is not allowed in 'test>thing'
Error: INVALID_NAME: '?' is not allowed in 'test?thing'
Comment 1 Eric Garver 2020-03-10 13:24:58 UTC 
Is this a request to update the firewall-cmd man page? The RHEL guide? Or both?
Comment 2 Khushal Chandak 2020-03-12 12:54:45 UTC 
Hi Eric,

This request is for both i.e man page and the RHEL guide doc.
Comment 4 Eric Garver 2020-03-20 17:39:00 UTC 
Upstream:

4edba793ff3c ("doc: specify accepted characters for object names")

-->8--

$ man doc/man/man1/firewall-cmd.1
[..]
       --permanent --new-service=service
           Add a new permanent and empty service.

           Service names must be alphanumeric and may additionally include
           characters: '_' and '-'.
[..]
Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2020-11-04 01:39:57 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 (firewalld bug fix and enhancement update), and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2020:4461
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