From 21cb9fb28db1f2eb4ee770eb029bfe20233e4392 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sumit Bose Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2019 13:10:16 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] certmap: mention special regex characters in man page MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Since some of the matching rules use regular expressions some characters must be escaped so that they can be used a ordinary characters in the rules. Related to https://pagure.io/SSSD/sssd/issue/4127 Reviewed-by: Michal Židek --- src/man/sss-certmap.5.xml | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/man/sss-certmap.5.xml b/src/man/sss-certmap.5.xml index db258d14a..10343625e 100644 --- a/src/man/sss-certmap.5.xml +++ b/src/man/sss-certmap.5.xml @@ -92,6 +92,15 @@ Example: <SUBJECT>.*,DC=MY,DC=DOMAIN + + Please note that the characters "^.[$()|*+?{\" have a + special meaning in regular expressions and must be + escaped with the help of the '\' character so that they + are matched as ordinary characters. + + + Example: <SUBJECT>^CN=.* \(Admin\),DC=MY,DC=DOMAIN$ + -- 2.20.1