Ok, ok, amen, so be it.
If it's ok in fstab, if bash always expands correctly then you're right,
don't change anything if it would bring more annoyance than ease of
life.
Title is « won't warn neither prevent usage of « risky » characters in labels »
Nothing else.
Accented letters in partition
Your original bug request said: "e2label lets you use any character,
including / or * or $ ( and probably others, like accented letters é è à
). it should not be possible to use those in label names." You've
now backpedaled and said, "I never said that! Only "risky" characters!"
"Risky" as
A warning if « special » characters are used in labels might be a first
step in the right direction.
Once again accented letters and diacritics are not the problem here
but characters that might get « translated » as « functions » such as / \ * and
few others.
Only those.
Space character is
Right, but exactly the same argument can be made about disallowing
anything other than plain ASCII characters in file names. It may be
that in some graphical interfaces, spaces and accented characters and
special characters like "$" don't require any escaping whatsoever. In
other command-line
You misread the case here, Theodore.
It's not a problem of language - accented letters and diacritics are used in
many languages and might be used in labels.
Sorry for me just being a stupid downstream user. Such names with «
special » characters in are a flawed design as they have high
Flawed by what definition? Editors allow people to create files with
spaces, or with dollar signs, or with accepted characters. Some of these
characters may require quoting if you use spaces or doll=lars. Not
allowing accented characters will cause speakers of various European
languages to
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Title:
won't warn neither prevent usage of « risky » characters in labels
Status in e2fsprogs package in Ubuntu:
« Hence, this feature request should not be considered a security
feature »
Nobody said it was a security feature.
But I surely think it's inappropriate that an utility allows to create «
flawed » labels.
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In order for e2label to modify the file system label, you need to have
write access to the block device. That means that a malicious user can
always directly modify the blockdevice (or just use a version of e2label
that doesn't have the proposed check).Hence, this feature request
should not
hi , same things is possible [b]without[/b] escaping any special characters in
the gparted application .
For example , i can give a new label to an ext partition entering : /DATA/é*/$
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Status: New => Confirmed
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Hi,
if naming or renaming an EXT volume,
e2label lets you use any character, including / or * or $ ( and probably
- others )
+ others, like accented letters é è à )
I'd expect at least a warning if such are to be found in a label name.
Or better, it
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