nfs4-acl-tools (spaces in principal names)

Commit Message

Liam Gretton July 18, 2012, 9:46 p.m. UTC

Attached is a patch which changes the behaviour of nfs4_setfacl slightly 
to allow it to add, remove and modify ACLs which act on principals 
containing space characters.

The rationale behind this is to allow us to use nfs4_setfacl on a file
system which is shared via CIFS to Windows clients and NFSv4. Though
very rare in a Unix environment, Windows commonly uses user names (and
hence principals derived from them) which contain spaces. A particularly 
common one is 'Domain Admins', the handling of which prompted me to look 
at modifying the nfs4_setfacl command.

As of 0.3.3 of nfs4-acl-tools, nfs4_setfacl fails to handle ACLs
containing a space character no matter what attempts to quote the ACE or 
escape the space character:

# nfs4_setfacl -a "A:fdg:Domain [e-mail]:R" file
Scanning ACE string 'A:fdg:Domain' failed.
Failed while inserting ACE(s) (at index 1).

(exit status 1.)

# nfs4_setfacl -a A:fdg:Domain\ [e-mail]:R file
Scanning ACE string 'A:fdg:Domain' failed.
Failed while inserting ACE(s) (at index 1).

(exit status 1.)

The attached patch modifies the parsing of the command line and
disallows space as an ACE delimiter. The patched version completes
successfully:

# nfs4_setfacl -a "A:fdg:Domain [e-mail]:R" file
# nfs4_getfacl file
A:fdg:Domain [e-mail]:rtncy

ACEs can be chained with commas, but no longer with spaces. With the -A, 
-X, -S or -e options which expect a file containing ACLs, ACEs can be 
separated with tabs, newlines and/or carriage returns as before.

As there's a slight change in behaviour, the patch also modifies one of
the examples given in the EXAMPLES section of nfs4_setfacl(1) and the
text of the 'ACL FORMAT' section of nfs4_acl.

The patches don't modify any version numbers or dates.

Regards,

Liam

Patch

diff -rup b_nfs4-acl-tools/libnfs4acl/nfs4_insert_string_aces.c a_nfs4-acl-tools/libnfs4acl/nfs4_insert_string_aces.c
--- b_nfs4-acl-tools/libnfs4acl/nfs4_insert_string_aces.c       2012-07-18 21:14:47.000000000 +0100
+++ a_nfs4-acl-tools/libnfs4acl/nfs4_insert_string_aces.c       2012-07-18 11:51:43.000000000 +0100
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@  int nfs4_insert_string_aces(struct nfs4_
        if ((s = sp = strdup(acl_spec)) == NULL)
                goto out_failed;

-       while ((ssp = strsep(&sp, " ,\t\n\r")) != NULL) {
+       while ((ssp = strsep(&sp, ",\t\n\r")) != NULL) {
                if (!strlen(ssp))
                        continue;

diff -rup b_nfs4-acl-tools/man/man1/nfs4_setfacl.1 a_nfs4-acl-tools/man/man1/nfs4_setfacl.1
--- b_nfs4-acl-tools/man/man1/nfs4_setfacl.1    2012-07-18 21:14:47.000000000 +0100
+++ a_nfs4-acl-tools/man/man1/nfs4_setfacl.1    2012-07-18 21:13:02.000000000 +0100
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@  delete the first ACE, but only print the
 .IP - 2
 delete the last two ACEs above:
 .br
-       $ nfs4_setfacl -x "A::EVERYONE@rtncy, D::EVERYONE@:waxTC" foo
+       $ nfs4_setfacl -x A::EVERYONE@rtncy,D::EVERYONE@:waxTC foo
 .IP - 2
 modify (in-place) the second ACE above:
 .br
diff -rup b_nfs4-acl-tools/man/man5/nfs4_acl.5 a_nfs4-acl-tools/man/man5/nfs4_acl.5
--- b_nfs4-acl-tools/man/man5/nfs4_acl.5        2012-07-18 21:14:47.000000000 +0100
+++ a_nfs4-acl-tools/man/man5/nfs4_acl.5        2012-07-18 21:11:11.000000000 +0100
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@  more permissive than the ones you set.
 .SH ACL FORMAT
 An NFSv4 ACL is written as an
 .IR acl_spec ,
-which is a comma- or whitespace-delimited string consisting of one or more
+which is a comma- or tab-delimited string consisting of one or more
 .IR ace_specs .
 A single NFSv4 ACE is written as an
 .IR ace_spec ,