FAS dump breakage

Mike McGrath mmcgrath at redhat.com
Thu Oct 23 21:23:56 UTC 2008


On Thu, 23 Oct 2008, Michael Schwendt wrote:

> There has been an invalid entry returned by the FAS group dump for some
> time:
>
>     bbs,disabled,james francis toy iv,user,0
>
> It contains no email address, but "disabled" in the addr field.
>
> Now there's another invalid entry:
>
>     mahmoudelmegheny,mahmoud,elmegheny at hotmail.com,Mahmoud Ali,user,0
>
> This entry consists of six fields instead of five. Perhaps one ',' is
> supposed to be a '.'?
>

The first example is a result of the new privacy policy.  It is
unfortunately valid.  The second one is a bit more troubling.  Anyone
happen to know if ,'s are allowed in an email?  If they are perhaps we
need a different delimiter.

	-Mike




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