Date: Fri, 2 Jan 1998 00:05:25 -0600 (CST) From: toasty@dragondata.com To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: bin/5408: /usr/sbin/adduser gives wrong error message Message-ID: <199801020605.AAA06748@home.dragondata.com> Resent-Message-ID: <199801020610.WAA11035@hub.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 5408
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: /usr/sbin/adduser gives wrong error message
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Thu Jan 1 22:10:00 PST 1998
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Kevin Day
>Organization:
DragonData
>Release: FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE i386
>Environment:
/usr/sbin/adduser on any FreeBSD system
>Description:
adduser gives an incorrect response when a blank line is entered when it is
expecting a username.
>How-To-Repeat:
Run adduser and press ENTER instead of typing a username
>Fix:
--- adduser Thu Jan 1 23:54:33 1998
+++ adduser.new Fri Jan 2 00:00:39 1998
@@ -308,7 +308,11 @@
while(1) {
$name = &confirm_list("Enter username", 1, "A-Za-z0-9_", "");
+ if ($name eq "A-Za-z0-9_") {
+ warn "Invalid username\a\n";
+ next;
+ }
if (length($name) > 8) {
warn "Username is longer than 8 chars\a\n";
next;
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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