Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 22:46:23 -0400 From: "William Wong" <willwong@anime.ca> To: "Matt Heckaman" <matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET> Cc: <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: rmuser bug Message-ID: <001501bfd34f$3beb0b80$0300a8c0@anime.ca> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006102128280.13897-100000@epsilon.lucida.qc.ca>
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I did a quick check, and it looks like it does:
Enter username [a-z0-9_-]:
That was a clip of output from the adduser script (invoked interactively)
- Will
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From: "Matt Heckaman" <matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET>
To: "William Wong" <willwong@anime.ca>
Cc: <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Saturday, June 10, 2000 9:29 PM
Subject: Re: rmuser bug
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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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