Re: [libvirt] Valid characters in domain names?
On 10/05/2010 03:03 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
On 10/03/2010 11:33 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> Indeed. I'm sure we need a whitelist, not a blacklist as suggested by
> the other comment. All domains I'd ever want to create would match
> the regexp
>
> ^[[:alpha:]][-_[:alnum:]]*$
>
> This might break existing users however.
A period in a name is definitely useful. Also, I think there is no need
to differentiate between the first and the other characters, except
perhaps to prohibit a name starting with "-".
Heh. Two periods in a name could lead to fun. Stuff like:
name="../../../etc/shadow"
Well, you know what I mean. :)