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Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 18:55:38 -0800
From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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To: Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: pw_user.c change for samba
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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

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