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#617 `guest account` man page entry incorrectly requires quoting.

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2023-04-11
2016-04-25
Parakleta
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Using double quotes to quote arguments was disabled in /libatalk/initparser/iniparser.c commit 3343c2 to prevent interference with the strok_quote() function. The man page entry for the guest account option states "The name should be quoted" but double quotes are no longer stripped (and in fact no quoting is required). Double quoted account names fail to work.

The man page should be updated to remove this requirement. Additionally it may be worth putting something in the preamble to make it clear that double quotes are not generally usable (except where specified around the allow and related options).

Discussion

  • Daniel Markstedt

    Addressed with https://github.com/Netatalk/netatalk/pull/297

    Note that the afp.conf manpage already has the phrase "The values following the equals sign in parameters are all either a string (no quotes needed) or a boolean" in the preamble.

     
  • Daniel Markstedt

    • assigned_to: Daniel Markstedt
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  • Daniel Markstedt

    • status: open --> closed
     
  • Daniel Markstedt

    Merged.

     

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