trac-admin can't handle SIDs with single quotes

[glinders]

I have a trac user with username do'neill.

When I try to add a name and email address using:

trac-admin . session name "do'neill:1" "Daniel O'Neill"

I get error:

ValueError: No closing quotation

I've tried escaping the single quote in several different ways to no avail.

The same error is returned for:

trac-admin . session list "do'neill"

If I list all SIDs, the name shows up properly:

trac-admin . session list 

SID                       Auth  Last Visit  Name                       Email                          
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
06064eb12e5a92df99d1a427  0     2015-11-10                                                            
604e0bf582a3fde77ceb35f9  0     2015-07-29                                                            
bwilliams                 1     2013-05-20  Ben Williams               bwilliams@xxx.com  
do'neill                  1     2015-08-28                                                            
rglassey                  1     2015-08-28  Robert Glassey             rglassey@xxx.com   

I can't change the username because they are passed from LDAP.

I've attached my Trac about page

[Ryan J Ollos]

Thanks for reporting. Confirmed.

16:48:42 Trac[console] ERROR: Exception in trac-admin command: 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/rjollos/Documents/Workspace/trac-dev/teo-rjollos.git/trac/admin/console.py", line 111, in onecmd
    rv = cmd.Cmd.onecmd(self, line) or 0
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.9/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/cmd.py", line 220, in onecmd
    return self.default(line)
  File "/Users/rjollos/Documents/Workspace/trac-dev/teo-rjollos.git/trac/admin/console.py", line 282, in default
    args = self.arg_tokenize(line)
  File "/Users/rjollos/Documents/Workspace/trac-dev/teo-rjollos.git/trac/admin/console.py", line 198, in arg_tokenize
    return [unicode(token, 'utf-8') for token in lex] or ['']
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.9/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/shlex.py", line 269, in next
    token = self.get_token()
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.9/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/shlex.py", line 96, in get_token
    raw = self.read_token()
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.9/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/shlex.py", line 172, in read_token
    raise ValueError, "No closing quotation"
ValueError: No closing quotation

[Ryan J Ollos]

Replying to glinders:

When I try to add a name and email address using:

trac-admin . session name "do'neill:1" "Daniel O'Neill"

Btw, the command is missing a set:

trac-admin . session set name "do'neill:1" "Daniel O'Neill"

However, that doesn't affect the bug that's reported.

[Ryan J Ollos]

Duplicate of #6998. With the length of time that ticket has been open I suspect the fix is not easy.

[Jun Omae]

Workaround is executing such commands via trac-admin shell rather than passing parameters to trac-admin command.

Trac [/var/trac/1.0-sqlite]> session add "do'neill:1" "Daniel O'Neill"
Trac [/var/trac/1.0-sqlite]> session list

SID       Auth  Last Visit  Name            Email
-------------------------------------------------------------
do'neill  1     2015-12-01  Daniel O'Neill