We get a lot of novice users managing files in the files menu/app. They usually use whitespace in names and that gets annoying when they inevitably need help. Is there any way to restrict the allowed chars for files and folders?
Do you allow white space characters in general on your cluster?
I guess. I’m not familiar with restricting chars in filenames. Is that possible on the system level? Our storage cluster restricts to windows type filenames (no colon for example)
it’s not usually a problem from people using the command line. I always run into this from a research assistant tasked to be a “data manager” who has no idea how to use a terminal and therefore makes a bunch of folders via the files app on ondemand. That same exact narrative has happened a few times actually.
Yeah, you end up needing to use escape or quoting to use spaced dirs/files with space separated files/dirs. If its just an annoyance from a sys admin perspective, I totally understand and we could put in a feature request for a config option to limit characters.
I don’t think it should be OODs job to restrict chars, I was just curious if it was possible. So no feature request for this from me.