Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 18:55:38 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org> Cc: "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pw_user.c change for samba Message-ID: <3DE585AA.39584D8E@mindspring.com> References: <20021127192126.GA31706@leviathan.inethouston.net> <3DE52B70.44402B98@mindspring.com> <20021127203401.GA35573@leviathan.inethouston.net> <3DE5315A.FC6D59B@mindspring.com> <20021127142348.A60606@FreeBSD.org>
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Juli Mallett wrote: > > The '$' is a pain. None of the examples in the original post > > would have worked, because the '$' was not '\$', and the shell > > would have blown chunks over the "variable expansion". > > Your foundation is flawed, we allow $ in passwd just fine, and > the only problem here is whether a pw should let someone do > something we support which they might need to do. Apply the patch. Then try to add a user with a trailing "$" via adduser(1); Note the failure. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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