From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225 Description of problem: Would it be a good idea to prevent the entry of a backslash as the final character in the Description field of the Create Samba Share dialog? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): redhat-config-samba-1.0.4-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Launch Samba Server Configuration utility 2. Click Add to create a new share 3. Type a backslash as the last character in the description field. Actual Results: The backslash escapes the newline character in the smb.conf file causing the content of the following line (probably path=...) to display in the description field on Windows Explorer. The absence of the path=... line then casuses Samba to search through the file for the next similar statement which will likely be in the following share section. This means it is possible to inadvertantly apply undesired access policies. Expected Results: The GUI should either prevent entry of a backslash as the final character or escape such a backslash so that it appears in the description as the user intended. Additional info:
Should be fixed in redhat-config-samba-1.0.8-1 in Rawhide. Thanks for your report.