[Acl-devel] Re: getfacl gives octal output for Hebrew user/group names

[Anoop Vijayan]

Andreas,
> > Removing the checks isprint(*s) and *s == '\\' resolves the issue.
> > AD shares are associated with a doamin name and AD users/groups will be in
> > the format Dom\user. Can someone explain why these checks are required?
>
> The '\\' check is required so that backslashes will go through 
> unquote(quote(string)) will come out correctly.
>
> The isprint() check is a misguided attempt to do something reasonable with 
> unprintable characters, but it leads to lots of problems with different 
> encodings, so it should probably be removed. I'll fix that.
>
> There also is a check for '=' in quote(). This is from the attr package which 
> separates names and values with '=', but unnecessary in acl. quote() should 
> probably be passed in a string of additional characters that need to be quoted 
> so that it does the right thing in both packages.

The do_print() in getfacl/getfacl.c calls

printf("# owner: %s\n", xquote(user_name(st->st_uid, opt_numeric)));
printf("# group: %s\n", xquote(group_name(st->st_gid, opt_numeric)));

and xquote simply calls quote().

Also, acl_entry_to_any_str() in libacl/__acl_to_any_text.c calls quote.
I could not find the corresponding unquote calls for these.

If I wrap the above quote() calls with unquote(), the problem seems to be 
resolved.
Attaching a patch for the same.

Cheers!
Anoop

getfacl-2.2.47.patch.2
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