Re: [nfsv4] Chapter 12 for next rfc3530bis

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From: J. Bruce Fields [mailto:[e-mail]] 
Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2010 1:10 PM
To: Noveck, David
Cc: Black, David; [e-mail]; [e-mail]
Subject: Re: [nfsv4] Chapter 12 for next rfc3530bis

On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 01:07:59PM -0400, bfields wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 07:42:46PM -0400, [e-mail] wrote:
> >           <t hangText="ascii_must/ASCII:">
> >             indicating that strings of this type MUST be
> >             pure ASCII, and thus automatically UTF-8.
> >             The processing of these string must ensure
> >             that they are only have ASCII characters but 
> 			^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> I know, you put that in there just to check if anyone was reading....

Of course.  You pass the test :-)

> 
> 
> >         <c>prinpfx4</c>
> >           <c>UVMUST</c>
> >           <c>NFS</c>
> >           <c>
> >             Must match one of a list of valid users
> >             or groups for that particular domain.  
> 
> What have the traditional restrictions on usernames been?  (A subset
of
> ascii?)

I'm guessing there has been some stuff in the 80-ff range for people who
have common European accents, umlauts, tildes, and whatever you call the
angstrom thing.

As far as a subset, probably NULs and such are out.  I haven't seen a
list.

The point is that what is valid depends primarily on presence on the
list.  If there is no name "aaaaa" then it is invalid in exactly the
same way a name consisting of a NUL would be.  They both are not on the
list.  There is no reason to divide this into two errors, at least that
I can see. 

> 
> I just want to make sure I'm getting into the business of mapping

(I meant to have a "not" there!)

> non-ascii non-utf8 usernames....

UVMUST says it MUST be UTF-8.  So if you get into the business of
mapping non-ascii non-utf8, you are non-compliant and you have only
yourself to blame for having to map stuff that you aren't supposed to
have accepted in the first place. 

> 
> --b.