From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon Sep 9 10: 9:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1FDC37B400 for ; Mon, 9 Sep 2002 10:09:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13E0D43E4A for ; Mon, 9 Sep 2002 10:09:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.12.3/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g89H9gVo066032 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=OK); Mon, 9 Sep 2002 13:09:43 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.12.3/8.12.5/Submit) id g89H9gtn066029; Mon, 9 Sep 2002 13:09:42 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 13:09:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <200209091709.g89H9gtn066029@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Magnus B{ckstr|m Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: misc/42590: pw doesn't accept "+" in usernames In-Reply-To: <200209091330.g89DU39x000908@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <200209091330.g89DU39x000908@freefall.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org < said: > (regardless of this, '+' isn't among the characters permitted in login > names. I don't know which particular standard specified this, but it's > fairly established now; User and group names should consist of characters taken from the Portable Filename Character Set, which is the set matched by the glob [-._a-zA-Z0-9]. See IEEE Std. 1003.1-2001 section 3.426. -GAWollman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message