Bug 1906495 - Add User: Autogenerated gecos includes non-english characters
Summary: Add User: Autogenerated gecos includes non-english characters
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: freeipa
Version: 33
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: IPA Maintainers
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2020-12-10 16:28 UTC by Izaac Brånn
Modified: 2020-12-17 09:03 UTC (History)
12 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2020-12-17 09:03:44 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description Izaac Brånn 2020-12-10 16:28:31 UTC 
Description of problem:

Adding a new user, through the webUI, where the first or last name contains
a non-english character fails with the error:
"gecos: value #0 invalid per syntax: Invalid syntax."

These should either be replaced by non-accented versions,
or removed if no good replacement exist.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Fedora 33, ipa-server 4.8.10

How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Add a user where first or last name contains a non-english character

Actual results:
Receives error: "gecos: value #0 invalid per syntax: Invalid syntax."

Expected results:
The user to be successfully added.

Additional info:
Comment 1 Petr Čech 2020-12-17 08:58:40 UTC 
Upstream ticket:
https://pagure.io/freeipa/issue/8625
Comment 2 Petr Čech 2020-12-17 09:03:44 UTC 
Thank you taking your time and submitting this request for Fedora 33. We prefer to track this effort in upstream project -- the request was cloned to the upstream tracker:
https://pagure.io/freeipa/issue/8625.
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