Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 00:22:40 +0100 From: Udo Erdelhoff <ue@nathan.ruhr.de> To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: "Forrest W. Christian" <forrestc@iMach.com> Subject: Re: edquota problem Message-ID: <19991221002240.A1273@nathan.ruhr.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.991220140952.16460B-100000@workhorse.iMach.com>; from Forrest W. Christian on Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 02:17:07PM -0700 References: <99Dec21.070526est.40331@border.alcanet.com.au> <Pine.BSF.3.96.991220140952.16460B-100000@workhorse.iMach.com>
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On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 02:17:07PM -0700, Forrest W. Christian wrote:
> 0plus-num
What happend to the rule that a username must not begin with a digit?
Sometimes, I do miss the good old days :)
>>IMHO, checking the parameter against the password file first
> This seems the MOST reasonable way to do this.
What about systems with a lot of users and/or centralized databases (NIS
and friends)? I'm afraid that this change may cause unneccessary delays.
I'd prefer to do a "is this an uid range"-check first and the "could this
be a username"-check second. In other words, along these lines:
if (((cp = strchr(*argv, '-')) != NULL) &&
(strspn(*argv, "0123456789") == (size_t)(cp - *argv)) &&
(strspn(++cp, "0123456789") == strlen(*argv) - (size_t)(cp - *argv)) &&
(getpwnam (*argv) == NULL)) {
/* uid range entered, use it */
} else {
/* Not an uid range */
}
Comments?
/s/Udo
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