#702702 Should escape commas in ESSID names before building the list of ESSIDs to choose from

Package:
netcfg
Source:
netcfg
Submitter:
Neil Wallace
Date:
2013-08-20 07:54:16 UTC
Severity:
normal
#702702#5
Date:
2013-03-10 13:23:07 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

        I have 2 wireless networks, with SSIDs of "Gables, Daviot" and "Gables,
guest"

        During network configuration This was presented to me as:
        select the wireless network to use during the installation process

                Gables
                guest
                Gables
                Daviot


        and I failed to connect, no matter what I tried (even entering the ssid
manually, and escaping the ,)

regards

Neil Wallace.
#702702#10
Date:
2013-03-11 18:41:49 UTC
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To:
While SSIDs can have spaced in them as far as I understand it, but the
number of devices and systems that break when you do it means that it
probably isn't worth it.

This doesn't mean it isn't worth fixing a bug in code that doesn't handle
it of course.  I still would never create such an SSID myself though.
I don't like to cause problems when I don't have to.

You probably have to escape the space, not the comma when entering
it manually.
#702702#15
Date:
2013-03-11 18:41:49 UTC
From:
To:
While SSIDs can have spaced in them as far as I understand it, but the
number of devices and systems that break when you do it means that it
probably isn't worth it.

This doesn't mean it isn't worth fixing a bug in code that doesn't handle
it of course.  I still would never create such an SSID myself though.
I don't like to cause problems when I don't have to.

You probably have to escape the space, not the comma when entering
it manually.
#702702#20
Date:
2013-03-12 06:56:03 UTC
From:
To:
reassign 702702 netcfg
retitle 702702 Should escape commas in ESSID names before building the list of ESSIDs to choose from
thanks

Quoting Neil Wallace (rowinggolfer@gmail.com):

This is indeed a failure to properly escape commas before building the
debconf screen, in netcfg.

Reassigning to this D-I component. Thanks for reporting this issue.