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From: Sumit Bose <sbose@redhat.com>

Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2019 13:10:16 +0100

Subject: [PATCH] certmap: mention special regex characters in man page

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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 <mzidek@redhat.com>

---

 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 @@

                     <para>

                         Example: <SUBJECT>.*,DC=MY,DC=DOMAIN

                     </para>

+                    <para>

+                        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.

+                    </para>

+                    <para>

+                        Example: <SUBJECT>^CN=.* \(Admin\),DC=MY,DC=DOMAIN$

+                    </para>

                     </listitem>

                 </varlistentry>

                 <varlistentry>

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