From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu Oct 11 8:20: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBB5637B403 for ; Thu, 11 Oct 2001 08:20:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f9BFK1x57097; Thu, 11 Oct 2001 08:20:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 08:20:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200110111520.f9BFK1x57097@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: "Yar Tikhiy" Subject: Re: bin/31049: /usr/sbin/adduser does not allow '.' in login name. [PATCH] Reply-To: "Yar Tikhiy" 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 The following reply was made to PR bin/31049; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "Yar Tikhiy" To: , Cc: Subject: Re: bin/31049: /usr/sbin/adduser does not allow '.' in login name. [PATCH] Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 19:11:07 +0400 Could you quote POSIX on the characters allowed in usernames? What characters are allowed? This question has to do with the fact that "adduser" and "pw" use inconsistent algorithms of validating a username, so I'd like to fix both. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message