Bug #7548
closed
Cannot use UTF8 characters as a user's login, firstname or lastname
Description
Cloned from https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1144162
Description of problem:
The server returns an HTTP 422 response when creating a user if UTF-8 characters are provided for that user's login, firstname or lastname. Note that other types of interesting characters are allowed, such as latin-1 and CJK.
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
The following software is installed:
- apr-util-ldap-1.3.9-3.el6_0.1.x86_64
- candlepin-0.9.23-1.el6_5.noarch
- candlepin-common-1.0.1-1.el6_5.noarch
- candlepin-scl-1-5.el6_4.noarch
- candlepin-scl-quartz-2.1.5-5.el6_4.noarch
- candlepin-scl-rhino-1.7R3-1.el6_4.noarch
- candlepin-scl-runtime-1-5.el6_4.noarch
- candlepin-selinux-0.9.23-1.el6_5.noarch
- candlepin-tomcat6-0.9.23-1.el6_5.noarch
- elasticsearch-0.90.10-6.el6sat.noarch
- foreman-1.6.0.46-1.el6sat.noarch
- foreman-compute-1.6.0.46-1.el6sat.noarch
- foreman-gce-1.6.0.46-1.el6sat.noarch
- foreman-libvirt-1.6.0.46-1.el6sat.noarch
- foreman-ovirt-1.6.0.46-1.el6sat.noarch
- foreman-postgresql-1.6.0.46-1.el6sat.noarch
- foreman-proxy-1.6.0.30-1.el6sat.noarch
- foreman-selinux-1.6.0.14-1.el6sat.noarch
- foreman-vmware-1.6.0.46-1.el6sat.noarch
- katello-1.5.0-30.el6sat.noarch
- katello-certs-tools-1.5.6-1.el6sat.noarch
- katello-default-ca-1.0-1.noarch
- katello-installer-0.0.64-1.el6sat.noarch
- katello-server-ca-1.0-1.noarch
- openldap-2.4.23-32.el6_4.1.x86_64
- pulp-katello-0.3-4.el6sat.noarch
- pulp-nodes-common-2.4.1-0.7.beta.el6sat.noarch
- pulp-nodes-parent-2.4.1-0.7.beta.el6sat.noarch
- pulp-puppet-plugins-2.4.1-0.7.beta.el6sat.noarch
- pulp-puppet-tools-2.4.1-0.7.beta.el6sat.noarch
- pulp-rpm-plugins-2.4.1-0.7.beta.el6sat.noarch
- pulp-selinux-2.4.1-0.7.beta.el6sat.noarch
- pulp-server-2.4.1-0.7.beta.el6sat.noarch
- python-ldap-2.3.10-1.el6.x86_64
- ruby193-rubygem-net-ldap-0.3.1-3.el6sat.noarch
- ruby193-rubygem-runcible-1.1.0-2.el6sat.noarch
How reproducible:
Almost always.
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a user via the API. Provide any number of UTF-8 characters as a login, firstname or lastname.
Actual results:
HTTP 422 response with one of the following messages:
- First name is invalid
- Last name is invalid
- Surname is invalid
Expected results:
One of the following:
- A user is created.
- A helpful error message is returned.
Additional info:
Once in a while - say, once every 20 attempts - a user is sucessfully created even though UTF-8 chars are submitted.
Updated by Dominic Cleal over 10 years ago
- Category set to Authentication
- Assignee deleted (
Bryan Kearney)
Updated by Dominic Cleal over 10 years ago
- Related to Bug #5869: Accents etc should be permitted in user first and last names added
Updated by Dominic Cleal over 10 years ago
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Updated by Mathieu Parent about 10 years ago
Hi,
We have First name is invalid, which is only containing é.
OS: debian
RELEASE: 7.7
FOREMAN: 1.6.1
RUBY: ruby 1.9.3p194 (2012-04-20 revision 35410) [x86_64-linux]
PUPPET: 3.6.2
Updated by Mathieu Parent about 10 years ago
NB: I have this error with an user coming from an ActiveDirectory LDAP (no use of the API).
Updated by Mathieu Parent about 10 years ago
My current workaround is:
--- /usr/share/foreman/app/models/user.rb.old 2014-11-27 17:35:58.000979970 +0100
+++ /usr/share/foreman/app/models/user.rb 2014-11-27 17:40:08.373381169 +0100
@@ -76,7 +76,8 @@
if RUBY_VERSION.start_with? '1.8'
/\A[ёЁа-яА-Яa-zA-Zà-üÀ-Ü0-9\s'_\-\.()<>;=,]*\z/u
else
- /\A[[:alnum:]\s'_\-\.()<>;=,]*\z/
+ #/\A[[:alnum:]\s'_\-\.()<>;=,]*\z/
+ /\A.*\z/
end
end
Updated by Dominic Cleal about 10 years ago
- Has duplicate Bug #8624: On-the-fly user creation not working if user's name contains umlauts. added
Updated by
Updated by Dominic Cleal over 9 years ago
- Has duplicate Bug #11221: Login failure with unicode surname added
Updated by The Foreman Bot about 9 years ago
- Status changed from New to Ready For Testing
- Assignee set to Timo Goebel
- Pull request https://github.com/theforeman/foreman/pull/2952 added
Updated by Anonymous about 9 years ago
- Status changed from Ready For Testing to Closed
- % Done changed from 0 to 100
Applied in changeset f4aa6463dc217aa2739927997a51254988ad929f.
Updated by Dominic Cleal about 9 years ago
- Translation missing: en.field_release set to 104
Updated by Dominic Cleal almost 9 years ago
- Has duplicate Bug #13125: When using danish letters in users first or lastname in ldap, user cannot login. added
Updated by Anonymous almost 5 years ago
- Related to Bug #28600: Ruby 2.7 FrozenError with LDAP auth sources added