From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Dec 27 11:43:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7954937B401 for ; Fri, 27 Dec 2002 11:43:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49A8B43EDC for ; Fri, 27 Dec 2002 11:43:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id gBRJhBpx058660; Fri, 27 Dec 2002 14:43:11 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20021227174538.GA22160@attbi.com> References: <20021227112033.N93884-100000@ren.sasknow.com> <20021227174538.GA22160@attbi.com> Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 14:43:10 -0500 To: Craig Rodrigues , Ryan Thompson From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: pw(8): $ (dollar sign) in username Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.3 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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