Description Felix Botner 2025-12-11 10:04:16 CET

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #54589 +++

The regular expression für the UDM syntax gid does not represent what is really meant by the author and what is useful.

" -." does not only allow the characters space, dash and dot but all characters in the ASCII range " " (32) up to "." (46) → see list of wrongly allowed characters below.

IIRC the correct regex would be: u"(?u)^\\w([\\w .-]*\\w)?$"

ALSO: Please check, why single ticks are currently allowed in group names!

Also note: this is a breaking change. We have to find an appropriate release for this change and have to announce this change before! (in case a customer used a lot of e.g. plus signs in group names)

class gid(simple):
	min_length = 1   # TODO: not enforced here
	max_length = 32  # TODO: not enforced here
	regex = re.compile(u"(?u)^\\w([\\w -.’]*\\w)?$")
	# FIXME: The " -." in "[\w -.]" matches the ASCII character range(ord(' '),  ord('.')+1) == range(32, 47)
	error_message = _(
		"A group name must start and end with a letter, number or underscore. In between additionally spaces, dashes "
		"and dots are allowed."
	)

$ python3
>>> for i in range(ord(' '), ord('.')+1): print(i, repr(chr(i)))
... 
32 ' '
33 '!'
34 '"'
35 '#'
36 '$'
37 '%'
38 '&'
39 "'"
40 '('
41 ')'
42 '*'
43 '+'
44 ','
45 '-'
46 '.'
>>> 

root@master:~# udm groups/group create --position cn=groups,$(ucr get ldap/base) --set name="Group (name) + cool2"
Object created: cn=Group (name) \+ cool,cn=groups,dc=dev,dc=nstx,dc=de