[Dovecot] authentication with mysql - problem with table name escaping

[Luuk]

should u not do this;
user_query = "SELECT CONCAT('/home/vmail/', domain.name, '/',
address.local, '/.maildir/') AS home, 1101 AS uid, 1101 AS gid FROM
user, `#user_address`, address, domain WHERE user.id =
`#user_address`.user_id AND `#user_address`.address_id = address.id AND
address.domain_id = domain.id AND user.name=LEFT('%u',
LOCATE('@','%u')-1) AND CONCAT(address.local, '@', domain.name) =
MID('%u', LOCATE('@','%u')+1) "

so, also change: LOCATE("@",'%u')
to: LOCATE('@','%u')
(two times in yout query)

Luuk

> Luuk you're absolutely right - I have to use the backtick. But
> unfortunately dovecot doesn't let me do that.
>
> And further as an example (actually a pretty complicate one):
>
> user_query = SELECT CONCAT('/home/vmail/', domain.name, '/',
> address.local, '/.maildir/') AS home, 1101 AS uid, 1101 AS gid FROM
> user, `#user_address`, address, domain WHERE user.id =
> `#user_address`.user_id AND `#user_address`.address_id = address.id AND
> address.domain_id = domain.id AND user.name=LEFT('%u',
> LOCATE("@",'%u')-1) AND CONCAT(address.local, '@', domain.name) =
> MID('%u', LOCATE("@",'%u')+1)
>
> If I change the table's name to one, which doesn't need backtick
> escaping the upper query works. Dovecot somehow doesn't get along with
> the backtick ....
>
> Regards,
> XhE
>
>
> Luuk wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> for more info see:
>> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/identifiers.html
>> where is stated: "The identifier quote character is the backtick (‘`’):"
>>
>> greetings,
>> Luuk
>>
>>
>>> On 26.8.2007, at 3.41, XhE wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Found a problem with dovecot 1.0.3 and mysql authentication
>>>>
>>>> I got a problem with escaping of mysql table names. Usually, when a
>>>> mysql table name has some special character (in my case there is a
>>>> table beginning with the # character) one has to put into these
>>>> special quotes --- ` ---; others like ' oder " are not recognized.
>>>> But dovecot somehow doesn't allow me to do that.
>>>>
>>> I don't know what you mean by putting into special quotes. Can you
>>> given an example? But if you tried to use # it would be treated as a
>>> comment, so you'd have to put the whole setting inside quotes:
>>>
>>> password_query = "select password, from #table where .."
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>