Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 14:43:10 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@attbi.com>, Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pw(8): $ (dollar sign) in username Message-ID: <p05200f00ba325cadacec@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20021227174538.GA22160@attbi.com> References: <20021227112033.N93884-100000@ren.sasknow.com> <20021227174538.GA22160@attbi.com>
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At 12:45 PM -0500 12/27/02, Craig Rodrigues wrote: >On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 11:35:45AM -0600, Ryan Thompson wrote: >> Problem is, smb requires a '$' at the end of the username, which our >> pw(8) doesn't allow. > >The same patch which you proposed was suggested on the freebsd-current list. >See the thread "pw_user.c change for samba": > >http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/archive/2002/freebsd-current/20021201.freebsd-current.html >http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/archive/2002/freebsd-current/20021208.freebsd-current.html > >I'm not sure what the outcome of the discussion was. The short-term outcome was that we were surprised to find out that the adduser script in 5-current was still using perl, and that there were some other perl scripts still in the base system. This was much more urgent to address than the $ in user-names. My intention was to write an update to allow $ as the last character in a userid and groupid, once we settled on a new version of adduser. I still have that around somewhere. I should look into that again. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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