[KAFKA-5714] Allow whitespaces in the principal name

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 0.10.2.1
• Component/s: security
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Alla Tumarkin
• Created: 08/Aug/17 18:35
• Updated: 22/Aug/17 10:31

Description

Request
Improve parser behavior to allow whitespaces in the principal name in the config file, as in:

super.users=User:CN=Unknown, OU=Unknown, O=Unknown, L=Unknown, ST=Unknown, C=Unknown

Background
Current implementation requires that there are no whitespaces after commas, i.e.

super.users=User:CN=Unknown,OU=Unknown,O=Unknown,L=Unknown,ST=Unknown,C=Unknown

Note: having a semicolon at the end doesn't help, i.e. this does not work either

super.users=User:CN=Unknown, OU=Unknown, O=Unknown, L=Unknown, ST=Unknown, C=Unknown;