Feature: Remove spaces in group names that come from Entra

[augustmultiply]

Is there an existing request for this feature?

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Describe the feature

When using authd with Microsoft Entra ID, group names containing spaces are harder to work with in Linux terminals.
A good solution would be to automatically replace spaces (" ") with dashes ("-") in group names retrieved from Entra.

Example: My Group Name → my-group-name

Also to provide backwards compatibility, configuration option could be added in authd.yaml to enable or disable this transformation (e.g., transform_group_names = true).

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[augustmultiply]

I hope you're doing well! I wanted to follow up on this issue and kindly request an update on its progress. Is there any timeline or additional information you could share regarding its resolution?

Thank you for your efforts and support!

[adombeck]

Hi, sorry for the late reply.

A good solution would be to automatically replace spaces (" ") with dashes ("-") in group names retrieved from Entra.

The problem I see with this is that it would map different Entra groups to the same group: The Entra groups "My Group Name" and "my-group-name" would both be mapped to the "my-group-name" system group.

[3v1n0]

An option would be to add some crc-like suffix to groups that have been renamed, so that they're always different. Or given that there's no risk of duplication just add a suffix and consider that suffix as "protected" for the groups that are synchronized otherwise.

[Foorack]

Not a fan of defining an arbitrary suffix as "protected" when such restriction can't be enforced in M365. Feels like it's just a matter of time until someone then intentionally creates a group with that name.

I don't see any disavantage to appending a crc-like suffix though.