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Date:      Sat, 10 Jun 2000 21:29:10 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Matt Heckaman <matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET>
To:        William Wong <willwong@anime.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: rmuser bug
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006102128280.13897-100000@epsilon.lucida.qc.ca>
In-Reply-To: <000f01bfd33f$597b0ca0$0300a8c0@anime.ca>

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If I'm not mistaken, the default adduser doesn't allow you to add a
username with '-' character (not to mention qmail doesn't like it) I
don't use either default adduser|rmuser but I think my memory serves.

Regards,
Matt

On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, William Wong wrote:

: Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 20:52:41 -0400
: From: William Wong <willwong@anime.ca>
: To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
: Subject: rmuser bug
: 
: Hi there,
: 
: I noticed a small bug in the rmuser script version:
: (# $FreeBSD: src/usr.sbin/adduser/rmuser.perl,v 1.8.2.1 2000/03/20 13:00:36
: peter Exp $)
: ... which prevents you from deleting usernames which contain the dash ('-')
: character.
: 
: There was a similar check done later on in the code, so I just modified it a
: bit to match (since I don't know much about perl and expressions :)  I'm not
: sure if it's been fixed though in the most current/stable version though.
: 
: - Will
: 
: There's a line of code that reads:
: 
: if ($#ARGV == 0)
: 
:     # Username was given as a parameter
:     $login_name = pop(@ARGV);
:     die "Sorry, login name must contain alphanumeric characters only.\n"
:         if ($login_name !~ /^[a-zA-Z0-9_]\w*$/);
: }
: 
: ... when it should read:
: 
: if ($#ARGV == 0)
: 
:     # Username was given as a parameter
:     $login_name = pop(@ARGV);
:     die "Sorry, login name must contain alphanumeric characters only.\n"
:         if ($login_name !~ /^[a-z0-9_][a-z0-9_\-]*$/);
: }
: 
: 
: 
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: 

Matt Heckaman
matt@arpa.mail.net
http://www.lucida.qc.ca

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