On 29-09-11 14:03, Jonathan Stanton wrote:
> On Sep 29, 2011, at 7:35 AM, Martijn Grendelman wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am currently testing my catalog, that runs fine with 2.6.3, with Puppet
>> 2.7.4. Now I am running into a problem, and I wonder why this was 'fixed'
>> in Puppet the way it was.
>>
>> Please consider http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/7888
>>
>> In Puppet 2.7.4, there is code [1] that prevents ssh_authorized_key
>> resources to contain whitespace in their names. This is a problem, because
>> I actually have authorized keys with whitespaces in the comments, and
>> these have been added through Puppet without problems.
> 
> I also have numerous keys with whitespace in the comments and given
> that this is valid for SSH, I would agree it should work with Puppet.
> 
>> Besides, is there any REAL reason why a key comment (and the resource name
>> with it) can't contain any whitespace? I know that one should be careful
>> how to specify the resource to prevent it being added repeatedly on every
>> catalog run, but apart from that? I have never had any problems with it.
>>
> 
> The fix for Issue 7888 doesn't require that the 'name' field not have
> whitespace, only that the 'key' field not have whitespace, so fixing
> that bug and allowing whitespace in comments seem compatible.
> 
> I would suggest opening a bug report that the fix to 7888 was
> overzealous and they should revert the first part of that patch to
> allow whitespace in the name field.

http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/9796
> 
>> If whitespace is permitted from OpenSSH's point of view, shouldn't Puppet
>> allow it too, and fix problems like this the right way? Or am I missing
>> something?
>>
> 
> +1. 

Best regards,
Martijn Grendelman

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